Other Sites Like Ours...*:

Note: We are delighted that our journal, the Classical Voice platform on which ours is based (SFCV), and several more online performing arts sites are described in an important article in November/December 2008 issue of Symphony Magazine. To download a copy, see http://www.americanorchestras.org/november_december_2008/comment.html.

Keep up with opera, world-wide, via Elon-based Joseph Newsome's lively site, at http://voix-des-arts.blogspot.com/. And see what CVNCer Ted McIrvine is doing, blog-wise, at http://artsspectrum.blogspot.com/.

Otherwise, see:

• artsJournal offers links to a vast array of worldwide arts news at http://www.artsjournal.com/ - some of us can't start the day without it (or without its email service, for which one can sign up at the site)
• BLOGS written by members of the Music Critics Association of North America, Inc. (arrayed alphabetically by critic):
  Marcia Adair (Guelph, Ontario): http://theomniscientmussel.com/;
  James Bash (Portland, OR): http://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/;
  Clarke Bustard (Richmond, VA): http://letterv.blogspot.com/;
  Andrew Druckenbrod (Pittsburgh, PA): http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/classical/default.aspx;
  Janelle Gelfand (Cincinnati, OH): http://cincinnati.com/blogs/arts/;
  Paul Hertelendy (San Francisco, CA): http://www.artssf.com/
  Michael Huebner (Birmingham, AL): http://blog.al.com/mhuebner/;
  Mary Ellyn Hutton (Cincinnati, OH): http://www.MusicinCincinnati.com/;
  Joshua Kosman (San Francisco, CA): http://pacificaisle.blogspot.com/;
  Jens Laurson (Arlington, VA): http://www.weta.org/fmblog/;
  Anne Midgette (Washington, DC): http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-classical-beat/;
  Tim Smith (Baltimore, MD): http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/classicalmusic/;
  David Stabler (Portland, OR): http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/.
• BLOGS recommended by members of the MCANA, Inc.:
  James Allen Anderson, Director of Orchestral Activities at Appalachian State University: http://jamesallenanderson.com/Blog.aspx
  Contemporary Classical Musicians (New York, NY): http://www.sequenza21.com/;
  Jeremy Denk, pianist (New York, NY): http://jeremydenk.net/blog/;
  Alex Ross (New York, NY): http://www.therestisnoise.com/;
  Night after Night (New York, NY): http://nightafternight.blogs.com/;
  La Scena Musicale (Montreal, Quebec): http://www.scena.org/
  The Whole Note (Toronto, Ontario): http://thewholenote.com/; &
  How to Start Your Own Blog: http://www.google.com/support/blogger/.
• Boston Musical Intelligencer: http://www.classical-scene.com/
• Classical Domain dot org (New York City) (or, to borrow a phrase, "things are tough everywhere," so even in New York...): http://www.classicaldomain.org/ [inactive 6/10]
• Classical New Jersey Society: http://www.classicalnjsociety.org/ [inactive 2/09] (Classical NJ reviews serious music - symphony, chamber, opera, voice - all over the state of New Jersey with occasional excursions beyond the Garden State's borders.)
• Classical Voice of New England (CVNewEng): http://www.CVNewEng.org/ (on hiatus while regrouping, as of 12/09...)
• Three French sites - for bassists, pianists, and singers, respectively: see http://la-basse.eu/, http://le-piano.eu/, & http://le-chant.eu/.
• Instant Encore: http://www.instantencore.com/
• KUAT-FM's Cue Sheet (Classical Blog - Southern Arizona) (James Reel): http://www.kuatfm.org/jreel/index.cfm
• Glenn Loney websites: http://glennloney.com/;
  NY Theatre Wire: http://www.nytheatre-wire.com/;
  Notes on theatre criticism: http://glennloney.com/letter.htm; &
  Modern Theatre Online: http://moderntheatre.info/
• MinnPost.com - a new approach to news & newspapering: http://www.minnpost.com/
• MusicalAmerica.com, edited by Susan Elliott, is a subscription site that offers some free services at http://www.musicalamerica.com/
• newmusicbox, the web magazine of the American Music Center, is online at http://www.newmusicbox.org/
• San Diego Classical Music [inactive 12/07]
• San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV): http://www.sfcv.org/ (SFCV furnishes reviews of serious, non-commercial music in the greater San Francisco area along with occasional commentary by SFCV Founder Robert Commanday. This is the site on which CVNC is modeled, and which provided tremendous help to us in our start-up.)
• SoI'veHeard - Alan Rich's blog: http://soiveheard.com/
• South Florida Classical Review - Lawrence A. Johnson's response to cultural cuts at papers - his papers! - in the Sunshine State: http://southfloridaclassicalreview.com/
• Voice of the Arts - NC-based Joseph Newsome's exhaustive opera blog (and much, much more): http://voix-des-arts.blogspot.com/
• TheWholeNote (Magazine) – covering classical, jazz, world, & folk musics from Toronto, CA: http://www.thewholenote.com/
  
  *To help extend the reach of CVNC beyond NC and to encourage the work of platforms providing comparable services and support for the performing arts elsewhere in our country, we are pleased to list our colleagues' sites here. Note that some of these are what may be called blogs, but reviews appear in them from time to time. Several are primarily cultural news sites. Readers are invited to propose other sites by contacting us.