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VirtualSheetMusic.com
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| A selection of mainly classical sheetmusic to buy online and download instantly to your computer. Most pieces include excellent midi samples you can listen to before buying.
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Tête à Tête Opera Company
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| Stunningly designed site for a stunning company - UK based Tête à Tête's mission is to bring uplifting, surprising, dangerous and intimate opera productions of the highest quality to the widest possible audience. Rave reviews if recent productions suggest they may have achieved their goal.
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The Royal Opera House (UK)
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| London's Royal Opera House has been beleagured by bad press surrounding its expensive new building. We think the building is great, as for the web site, we're not so sure...
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Royal Festival Hall
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| Stylish site for the Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London. Includes full details of concerts and events, and a good online booking system.
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Barbican Centre
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| Great cultural centre though it is, the barbican is famous for being impossible to navigate. We think this approach has been cleverly incorporated into the web site as well. Nevertheless, a great place to visit for music, film and theatre events of the highest international standard.
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Wigmore Hall, London
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| London's most elegant chamber music venue has thrived since its refurbishment in the early 1990s. The web site provides full concert details and information, but disappointingly doesn't let you book online.
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Lincoln Center, NY
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| Located in the heart of New York, the Lincoln Center claims to be the world's largest cultural complex.
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New York Philharmonic
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| 2001/2 will be Kurt Masur's last season as Music Director at the New York Phil, before he hands over to Lorin Maazel. This is a well organized site with full online booking facilities.
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Classical Music Used in Films
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| A superb list of Classical pieces and composers found in various well-known films. The site is produced by the budget record label Naxos, and contains links to the relevant recordings.
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A-Z of Composer
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| Brief notes on a large array of Classical composers from Albeniz to Zemlinsky, as featured in the budget record label Naxos's catalogue. There are also links to the relevant CDs and some audio clips.
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Berlin Philharmonic
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| Web site for the world famous orchestra. English-language version of the site is available. No online booking facility.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
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| Good-looking site, containing information about the orchestra and concert listings. Also contains links to the Boston Pops Orchestra and the BSO residency at Tanglewood.
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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| First rate site for a first rate orchestra.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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| For information about your upcoming performances, purchasing tickets and CSO merchandise, and experience the music as well as pages introducing Classical Music.
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Cleveland Orchestra
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| Ohio's favorite Classical Music orchestra. The site contains a merchandise store as well as the usual concert listings.
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London Symphony Orchestra
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| This site usefully includes sound clips for forthcoming concerts.
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Grove Dictionary
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| The Grove Dictionary is the essential reference work for serious musical scholar. The entire dictionary is now available online (if you're willing to pay the subscription fee).
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Opera Base
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| Operabase is one of those great internet ideas - a database of all the major opera houses including all forthcoming performances. A one-stop shop for any jet-setting opera-lover.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
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| Everything you need to know about this prolific English composer.
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Evelyn Glennie
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| The first lady of percussion has her own dedicated web site. Check out her ridiculously busy schedule and even buy her CDs online.
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