Arts Councils & Commissions, Non-Profit Societies, & Individual Artists

• AfriClassical.com (African Heritage in Classical Music): http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/index.html
• American Guild of Organists: http://www.agohq.org/ [inactive 10/07]
• American Harp Society: http://www.harpsociety.org/
• American Music Center: http://amc.net/
• AMC's online magazine, NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/
• American Musical Instrument Society: http://www.amis.org/
• American Symphony Orchestra League: http://www.symphony.org/
• Arts Access: http://www.artsaccessinc.org/
• Arts & Letters Daily: http://www.aldaily.com/
• Arts Council of Moore County: http://www.artscouncil-moore.org/
• Arts Journal: [A] Daily Digest of Arts, Culture & Ideas: http://artsjournal.com/
• Arts North Carolina: http://www.artsnc.org/
• Ashe County Arts Council: http://www.ashecountyarts.org/ [inactive 2/06]
• Asheville Area Arts Council: http://www.ashevillearts.com/
• Asheville Arts Center: http://www.ashevilleartscenter.com/
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections: http://www.arsc-audio.org/
• Bach Cantatas & other vocal music by Bach: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/
• Beethoven - the best site (with links to others), maintained by William Meredith: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/beethoven/ ; & the Beethoven bibliography: http://mill1.sjlibrary.org:83/ [inactive 8/08]
• Beethoven manuscripts - online!: http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/
• Berlioz - 2003 is the bicentennial of the composer's birth: http://www.hberlioz.com/
• Bernstein, Leonard: http://www.leonardbernstein.com/
• Black Composers, Classical Music Recordings of: http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/
• Carnegie Hall: http://www.carnegiehall.org/ (The hallowed hall's website is loaded with fascinating and engaging features for music lovers of all ages.)
• Carolina Clarinet - a major resource for clarinetists, bands & orchestras: http://www.carolinaclarinet.org/
• carynow!: http://carynow.com/ [inactive 7/08]
• Chamber Music America: http://www.chamber-music.org/
• Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission: http://www.chapelhillarts.org/ [Orange County's superior arts commission, supporting public art projects and the visual arts]
• Chicago Classical Music (via WFMT): http://chicagoclassicalmusic.org/
• Classical CD Review: http://www.classicalcdreview.com/ [inactive 11/07]
• ClassicalUSA.com (Paul Baker's outstanding contribution to classical music on the web ): http://classicalusa.com/
• Conductors Guild: http://www.conductorsguild.org/
• Cylinder Preservation & Digitization Project (UC, Santa Barbara): http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/ [inactive 5/07]
• Dance Critics Association: http://www.dancecritics.org/
• Donizetti Society: http://www.donizettisociety.com/
• Durham Arts Council: http://www.durhamarts.org/
• Early Music America: http://earlymusic.org/
• earsense.org - offering a chamber music database, blog,links, & more: http://www.earsense.org/
• Electroacoustic music: http://www.empreintesDIGITALes.com & http://www.electrocd.com/
• Elgar Society & Foundation: http://www.elgar.org/
• Festivals - US and beyond: http://kadmusarts.com/
• Flute Association, National: http://www.nfaonline.org/ [inactive 5/08]
• Galpin Society (For the Study of Musical Instruments): http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/galpin/
• Garner Arts Association: http://www.garnerarts.org/pages/1/index.htm [inactive 2/05]
• Guitar Foundation of America: http://www.guitarfoundation.org/
• Guitar News © (Newsletter of Classical Guitar Society of the Western Carolinas): http://www.classicalguitarswc.org/ [inactive 9/07]
• Hampson, Thomas, baritone: http://www.hampsong.com/ [inactive 8/05]
• Handel - the composer - in all his resplendent glory: http://www.gfhandel.org/
• Heid, David - pianist, accompanist, & vocal coach: http://www.duke.edu/~dheid/
• Historic Brass Society: http://www.historicbrass.org/ [inactive 6/08]
• Indian Classical Dance and Music - a superior portal for information about Indian classical music, dance, fusion, news, institutions & artists: http://www.vimoksha.com/
• Juilliard Manuscript Collection - mss of 42 composers: http://www.juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org/
• Tom Lehrer Songbook: http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/index.htm
• Locklair, Dan - composer: http://www.locklair.com/
  Madison County Arts Council: http://www.madisoncountyarts.com/
• Martinu, Bohuslav, Institute/Foundation, Prague: http://www.martinu.cz/english/
• Meet The Composer: http://www.meetthecomposer.org/
• Mengelberg Discography: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mengelberg/
• Metropolitan Opera database - the official site, listing all performances: http://66.187.153.86/archives/frame.htm
• Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts - database: http://www.metmaniac.com/ (an independent, non-profit site)
• Miró Quartet blog: http://www.classicallounge.com/ (requires registration)
• Moore County Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil-moore.org/
• Moore County - general information, including cultural activities: http://www.themooreexchange.com/ or http://www.themx.info/
• Moravian Music Foundation: http://www.moravianmusic.org/
• Morgan Library and Museum (with a large collection of music manuscripts): http://www.morganlibrary.org/
• Mozart - scores - complete - online: http://dme.mozarteum.at/ [inactive 8/07] or http://nma.redhost24-001.com/mambo/index.php [inactive 8/07]
• Music Criticism Online: http://musicalcriticism.com/
• Music Critics Association of North America: http://www.mcana.org/
• Music Heritage Resource Group: http://www.carolinamusicways.org/ [inactive 11/06] (various disciplines, including Moravian music, with events listings & links to various lovefeasts, band concerts, etc.)
• Music in the Midlands (mostly...) - a fine blog by pianist Phillip Bush commenting on music in South Carolina and beyond: http://phillipbush.blogstream.com/ [inactive 4/08]
• Music, Odd: http://www.oddmusic.com/ (The name says it all....)
• Musicology WebRing (for musicologists & for materials relating to research in musicology) - to sign up, see: http://s.webring.com/hub?ring=musicologywebrin [inactive 4/07]
• Musicweb - International (criticism) - UK: http://www.musicweb-international.com/
• Myrtle Hart Society ("...forum for classical musicians of color"): http://myrtlehart.org/
• National Council for the Traditional Arts: http://www.ncta.net/
• National Endowment for the Arts: http://www.nea.gov/
• News & Observer (Raleigh) - recent reviews:
  http://www.triangle.com/music/concertreview/index.html [inactive 3/06]
• New York Theatre: http://www.nytheatre.com/ (a superior site that is doing for theatre in NY what CVNC is attempting to do for music, dance, & theatre in NC; for more information, visit the organization's non-profit parent site, The New York Theatre Experience, at http://www.newyorktheatreexperience.org/)
• North Carolina Arts Council: http://www.ncarts.org/
• North Carolina Center for Nonprofits: http://www.ncnonprofits.org/
• North Carolina Dance Alliance: http://www.ncdancealliance.org/ [inactive 3/07]
• North Carolina Presenters Consortium: http://www.ncpresenters.org/ [inactive 7/08] (Note: The NCPC offers statewide [online] calender services to presenters for relatively nominal fees. See http://www.onstageinnc.com/ for details.)
• North Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts: http://www.ncvla.org/
• Onomatopoeia website (Bzzzpeek): http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html#
• Orange County Arts Commission: http://www.artsorange.org/
• Orchestra Musician Forum (a project of the Eastman School of Music): http://www.polyphonic.org/
• Organ Historical Society: http://www.organsociety.org/
• Philanthropy Journal: http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/
• Raleigh Arts Commission: http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts
• Raleigh Civic and Convention Center: http://www.raleighconvention.com/calendar.html [deactivated 5/20/05 - requires password...]
• raleigh now! (the Greater Raleigh Convention & Visitors Bureau's all-in-one site, listing entertainment, sports, movies, music, clubs, restaurants, shopping, hotels, transportation, business, & culture, and funded in part by the organizations listed therein): http://raleighnow.com/ [inactive 7/08]
• [Historic] Recording of the week - updated weekly...: http://homepages.ipact.nl/~otterhouse [inactive 3/07]
• Richmond County's "Arts Richmond": http://www.artsrichmond.org/ [inactive 2/08]
• San Francisco Classical Voice (the site that inspired CVNC to attempt a similar approach to providing comprehensive coverage of classical music here, in Central NC): http://www.sfcv.org/
• Scores - downloadable: International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): http://imslp.org/
• Seventeenth-Century Music Web Library: http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/wlscm/ [inactive 4/08]
• Beverly Sills Online: http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music: http://www.arts.uci.edu/sscm/ [inactive 12/05]
• Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society: http://www.sehks.org/
• Sphinx Music (advocacy organization formed 1996 by Aaron P. Dworkin): http://www.sphinxmusic.org/
• Stokowski Discography:
  http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5577/disco/lsdiscs.htm [inactive 12/05]; or http://www.classical.net/music/guide/society/lssa/index.html
• Jacqueline Taylor, cello (ASO): http://jacquelineltaylor.com/
• Stradivarius Violins: http://www.stradivarius.org/ (a work-in-progress - with, apparently, little staying power...: inactive 3/08)
• Toscanini Home Page (with comprehensive discography): http://home.earthlink.net/~jw3/ [inactive 3/08]
• ("Official") Toscanini Website: http://www.toscaninionline.com/
• Triangle Community Foundation (Durham): http://www.trianglecf.org/
• Triangle Folk Music Society: http://www.rtpnet.org/folk/ [inactive 8/08]
• Triangle Jazz Society: http://www.trianglejazz.org/
• TriangleSings!: http://trianglesings.org/
• United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County: http://www.unitedarts.org/
• Wellness Partners in the Arts in Downtown Durham: http://www.wpadurham.com/ [inactive 2/08]
• Works in Progress at Flat Rock Guitar (being, in part, the calendar formerly run by the Classical Guitar Society of the Western Carolinas): http://www.classicalguitarswc.org/ [inactive 9/07]
• World Guitarist (comprehensive guitar site with extensive links): http://www.worldguitarist.com/