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A selection of M&V 'classical music' articles

Ensemble. Severity and Comedy - Offenbach's 'Tales of Hoffmann', commended by Gregory Moomjy

DVD Spotlight. Outrageously Flamboyant - Christian Lindberg as trombonist, composer and conductor, recommended by Ron Bierman. '... an extraordinary character ...'

DVD Spotlight. Not for Everyone - A collaboration between Turnage and Scofield, reviewed by Ron Bierman. '... well executed ...'

Profile. A Nurturing Environment - Maria Nockin talks to American mezzo Kate Lindsey

Ensemble. To Suit the Voice - Gregory Moomjy takes a sneak peek at the divas and divos of tomorrow, as heard at New York Metropolitan Opera's National Council auditions

Think Again - A late review of Anvil (and some musings on classical music equivalents), by Gordon Rumson

Protect and Survive - Mike Wheeler was at the Annual Conference of the Association of British Orchestras

Ensemble. A Splendid Performance - Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, heard by Gregory Moomjy

Ensemble. A New Light - Gregory Moomjy listens to Tchaikovsky from Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic

Ensemble. Cultural Delights - Gerald Fenech visits Slovenia for Festival Maribor

Ensemble. Electronics Prevails - 'Orphée' at the Roma-Europa Festival, reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

Ensemble. Under the Tuscan Sun - Giuseppe Pennisi attends the beginning of the Tiroler Festspiele 2010

CD Spotlight. Utmost Clarity - William Appling plays Joplin and Bach, heard by Howard Smith. '... consistently four square, honest, unpretentious ...'

Dual Personality? - In the 20th anniversary year of Bernstein's death, Giuseppe Pennisi writes about Italy's homage to Lenny

CD Spotlight. Insistent Patterns - Music by Yuanlin Chen, recommended by Ron Bierman. '... marvelous textures ...'

Ensemble. Lyrical Athleticism - The Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra celebrate Paul Taylor's eightieth birthday, reviewed by Rebecca Schmid

Ask Alice - Saying goodbye to Fiori, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh

Arts and the Colour of Politics - Béla Hartmann muses on growing social equality and democratization

Ask Alice - On location, social networking and the guitar, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh

Ensemble. Especially Successful - Gillian Wills reports from the Australian Fesival of Chamber Music

Music for Musicians Only? - The public turns a deaf ear to improvised music. As for classical music, Jan Dahlstedt claims that having abandoned improvisation, classical music entered a sidetrack from which it has never escaped, thus badly stifling creative progress. If he is guilty of heresy or may have a point, read on and judge for yourself.

CD Spotlight. Portraits in Music - 'The Sucker Punch Requiem' by Lisle Ellis, enjoyed by Ron Bierman. 'Recommended ... to classical listeners interested in expanding their listening domain.'

CD Spotlight. Shaken and Stirred - Maurice Steger plays Giuseppe Sammartini, recommended by Jennifer Paull

Pure Fashion? - Several Composers in Search of an Identity, by Béla Hartmann

Ensemble. A Bright Future - Malcolm Miller was at the final night of the 2008 BBC Proms in London

Class actions? - Alistair Hinton replies to Patric Standford's latest on 'Class acts'

Profile. To be a composer - Ron Bierman continues his feature about Benjamin Lees

Ensemble. Liszt at lunchtime - Eri Niiyama gives a recital in Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and Keith Bramich listens

Mistaken catastrophe - A view from the trenches, by Gerald Brennan

Editorial musings with Basil Ramsey - On being caught - back on the trail ...

Music Web watch - The start of another new series at Music & Vision which takes a look at a couple of possible Millennium bug problems.

Site seeing - Looking in all directions, part 3 -

Site seeing - Looking in all directions, part 2 -

Looking in all directions - To mark a whole year's worth of Site Seeing articles, we look both forwards and backwards, inwards and outwards, at Attacca!, Klassieklinks, contemporary music on tour, the San Diego Symphony, St Martin-in-the-fields, and an entire list of Wilfrid Mellers' articles at Music & Vision

Site Seeing - part 3 -

Site Seeing - part 2 -

Site Seeing - Music website news, which features playing music for the global community, online music magazines, Millennium Stage, a competition and a contest for composers, The London Sinfonietta, The Magnificent Master, Ali Wood, Is it cool or hot?, Valeri Dimchev and humour from New Zealand

Site Seeing - part 2 -

Site Seeing - Music website news, including streaming BBC Radio Three, Classical beginnings, The Belgrade Cultural Centre Music Programme, The Australian Voices, Flynn's Trinity, Wingroove, Egroups and an opera jamboree.

Site Seeing - part 2 -

Site Seeing - Music website news, including musical orgies at WHRB, Met opera broadcasts, EMJ on-line, Melody Assistant, the Dutch Schubert Foundation, Erudito, Carlos Kleiber and Animals' Christmas.

Site Seeing - part 2 -

Site Seeing - Famous people with perfect pitch, the Institute for Cultural Memory, the Centro Sammarinese Studi Musicali, a large musical theatre site, Denis ApIvor, courtly love and Guillaume de Machaut, historic instruments and the top 14 worst operas are all featured this week.

Site Seeing - This week's music website news features language and pitch, Dutch links, soprano Rebekkah Graves, Operabase, Bridge Records, the Internet Movie Database, ARC Music, Ebenezer Prout and Bach

Site Seeing - This week's music website news includes information about making your own CD in Moscow, more sheet music sites, Classic Vinyl, UK Sounds, the daily review race, American composer P. Kellach Waddle and a virus warning ...

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Site Seeing - News from the expanding world of classical music - including Classics Today, Somm Recordings, Clarinets, Fuzeau and Oriana, Piano Passion, Elysian Singers, Straussian Origins and waiting for Finlandia ...

Site Seeing - The Emerald Isle

Site Seeing - This week on the web, we visit Digital Ear, Visual Orchestra, composer lists, the Internet Cello Society, the New York Philharmonic, the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Magazines at DMOZ and Yahoo, and ugly CD covers ... we also discover America's latest fitness craze!

Site Seeing - Another look at music internet sites, including how to find CD reviews, the Serafino Trio, Pierre Monteux, the Prism Quartet, Amazing Music World, Bridgewater Hall, Stefan Wolpe and Singing, vocals and songwriting ... and what is a symphony in URL minor?

Site Seeing - This week we investigate various novelties - computer music toys, programs and downloadable music gadgets

Site Seeing - This week's visit to other music internet sites includes Soundpost, New mailing lists, More Root from Tubb, The Concert Choir of New Orleans, Guia for free and Nambe Editions

Site Seeing - Another delve into the varied musical diet available at some of our neighbouring websites, including Bridge over the web, the Netherlands Radio Boys Choir, Wolfmusic Productions, clients of Denise Meyer, an affair with classical music, distance-learning in French, MusicArrangers.com, the Club Abbadiani Itineranti and the Kennedy interview

Site Seeing - Music website news, including Guildford Cathedral Choir, the Conductor's Domain, the Classical Free-reed, Women in music, Classical Composer Biographies, Player Care, Mallard Music, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Enemies of Classical Music

Site Seeing - Music website news, including our new Announce ! service, Australian Music Resources, Catalan composers, Andrys Basten's music pages, Duologue, Havergal Brian and the Hibernian Prima Donna

Site Seeing - Music website news, including the Alexander Technique Information Source, Frank Martin, Automatic links at the WWW Virtual Library, MIDI World, Green Tiger Music, the Helsinki Strings, CDs online, the D3 Music Learning Network and Classical Music on the Web (UK)

Site Seeing - Music festivals revisited, including information about Music & Vision's visit to the Presteigne Festival, which begins on Thursday

Site Seeing - Music website news - Music Web Hunter; Music feeds my soul; New Film Front; Phenomenal bass player; Hidingplace; Do you have a clean record?

Site Seeing Special - Composers on the web

Site Seeing Special - Choirs and Choral Music

Site Seeing - Music website news - Musique Ancienne; the Dead conductors page; What is the COE?; Net Notes; La Scena Musicale; Ring for early music; Leamington Winter Season; Golden Sections

Site Seeing - Music website news - free offers, including CDs, sheet music and software

Site Seeing - Music website news, featuring Blue Snow, Roger Deneuville, Jean-Pierre Rampal, John McHugh, Claude Vivier, MA Recordings, Violin Books and Autographs, Guitars Alive in the 21st Century and Mac's Maddening Musical Mind Mangler.

Site Seeing - Music website news with Keith Bramich - a shamelessly British edition, featuring One Wedding and a Funeral, Tubalaté, Janácek's Brno at Royal Holloway and The Band That Money Couldn't Buy

Site Seeing - Music website news with Keith Bramich, featuring books from New Delhi, inventor Manfred Clynes, Symphonic Workshops, I Fiati di Parma, GMN, New World Records, Arts and Letters Daily and the Millennium Whistling Championships.

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - Music website news

Site Seeing - An A-Z of music websites (part 3)

Site Seeing - University music departments and scholarly music sites

Site Seeing - An A-Z of music websites (part 2)

Site Seeing - An A-Z of music websites (part 1)

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