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/home.html
• American Harp Society: http://www.harpsociety.org/
• American Music Center: http://amc.net/
• AmIright[?] - "music humor site dealing in misheard song lyrics ... for pop songs of the past 50 years": http://www.amiright.com/
• AMC's online magazine, NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/
• American Musical Instrument Society: http://www.amis.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/
• 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://www.sjsu.edu/depts/beethoven/database/database.html
• 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/ > http://www.visitraleigh.com/visitors/neighboring_cities__towns/cary
• 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/
• ClassicalUSA.com (Paul Baker's outstanding contribution to classical music on the web ): http://classicalusa.com/
• Conductors Guild: http://www.conductorsguild.org/
• Criticism - UK, mostly: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/about.htm
• Cylinder Preservation & Digitization Project (UC, Santa Barbara): http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
  
• 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/ [inactive 11/09 - this seems to have become a subscription-only site]
• 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/
• Europeana - access to c.2M digitized books, scores, etc., in European libraries: http://www.europeana.eu/
• European (Digital) Archive: http://www.europarchive.org/
  
• Festivals - US and beyond: http://kadmusarts.com/
• Flute Association, National: http://www.nfaonline.org/

• 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]
• Gramophone Magazine (archives, 1923 - present): http://www.gramophone.net/
• Guitar Foundation of America: http://www.guitarfoundation.org/
  
• Hampson, Thomas, baritone: http://www.hampsong.com/
• 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/
  
• 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/
  
• Jan Kubelik Society (Prague, CZ): http://sdmusic.cz/jankubelik/
  
• Tom Lehrer Songbook: http://www.tomlehrer.org/
• Libretti - see http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/librettim.html
• 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://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/thase29/Willem2/Willem2.html
• Metropolitan Opera database - the official site, listing all performances: http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm
• Miró Quartet blog: http://www.classicallounge.com/ (requires registration)
• Moore County Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil-moore.org/
• 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/DME/main/index.php
• Music Criticism Online: http://musicalcriticism.com/
• Music Critics Association of North America: http://www.mcana.org/
• Music Heritage Resource Group: http://www.carolinamusicways.org/ (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/
• Music, Odd: http://www.oddmusic.com/ (The name says it all....)
• 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.nyte-inc.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/
• North Carolina Presenters Consortium: http://www.ncpresenters.org/ (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/ [inactive 8/10 but try 919/491-4625...]
  
• 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/
• Organ, History: http://www.zzounds.com/edu--historyoftheorgan
  
• Philanthropy Journal: http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/
  
• Raleigh Arts Commission: http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts
• 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/ > http://www.visitraleigh.com/
• RaleighStringTeacher: http://www.raleighstringteacher.com/
  
• 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/
• Beverly Sills Online: http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music: http://www.arts.uci.edu/sscm/
• 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.classical.net/music/guide/society/lssa/index.html
• Stradivarius Violins: http://www.stradivarius.org/ [inactive 7/10]
  
• Jacqueline Taylor, cello (ASO): http://jacquelineltaylor.com/
• Toscanini Website: http://www.toscaninionline.com/
• Triangle Community Foundation (Durham): http://www.trianglecf.org/
• Triangle Jazz Society: http://www.trianglejazz.org/
• TriangleSings!: http://trianglesings.org/
  
• United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County: http://www.unitedarts.org/
  
• World Guitarist (comprehensive guitar site with extensive links): http://www.worldguitarist.com/