Founded in 1911 in the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the San Francisco Symphony has flourished for over one hundred years, winning eleven Grammy Awards and performing around the globe. Now, with the symphony's freely available podcasts, listeners can engage with this epic institution's culture and creativity from the comfort of their homes. The seven chapters of Talking About...

This excellent website from the University of Texas at Austin sets the tone for its stories about Anglo settlers headed to the High Plains for free land by starting their website off with an old recording of a Western song. When visitors are ready to move on from listening to the gentle, lilting song, they can just click on the picture of the man with the guitar, to be taken to the...

The science of music may not be something most people think to wonder about, but for those who do, this lovely online collection of exhibits and activities provided by the Exploratorium will be of great interest. Visitors can explore the science of music through these different exhibits, short movies, and questions. Some of the thought-provoking questions which are answered through short...

How do opera singers sustain those high C's in "La Fille Du R'giment"? Is a birdsong music? These are but a few of the many questions explored, and answered, on this delightful site. Visitors can consider these and other queries through interactive exhibits, a "questions" section, and movies offered up by the Accidental Scientist Music site, created by staff members at the Exploratorium in San...

Simply put, Seaquence is "an experiment in musical composition." It's a rather modest way to describe this truly unique online experience. By adopting a biological metaphor, visitors can "create and combine musical lifeforms resulting in an organic, dynamic composition." There are visual "creatures" on the site which can be manipulated by users as they are encouraged to add different elements to...

Scion's "Meistersinger" Eagerly Awaited http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072200516.html Going Backstage With Bayreuth Festival Singers [Real Player] http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2703690,00.html Opera-less in the Realm of Wagner http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/travel/01journeys.html Opera 101 [Macromedia Flash...

For those who love everything from Sousa to show tunes, the Sheet Music Consortium is a fabulous find. The Consortium is comprised of a number of member libraries (including UCLA) who are interested in building "an open collection of digitized sheet music." Their work has been supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and currently offers cross collection searching of 22 sheet...

If you love Canadian history and music, you will most find this site most fetching. Created by the Library and Archives Canada, the site brings together intriguing and historically important sheet music from the past 150 years. The collection exists due to the diligence of Helmut Kallmann, a young CBC music librarian who began to collect sheet music in the early 1950s. Today, the archives contain...

Sheldon Harris was an avid record collector, and he began his collection as a young man growing up in Brooklyn. During his life, he also served as the blues editor of "Jazz & Pop Magazine", and also found time to publish an important biographical dictionary of blues singers and an oral history of jazz as told by jazz trombonist and blues singer, Clyde E.B. Bernhardt. This particular digital sheet...

With over 10,000 digitized pieces of music in their online archive, the University of Rochester's Sibley Music Library is a force to be reckoned with for performers, musicologists, and others. The works in the archive come from the Eastman School of Music, and they are meant to be a performance resource, as well as a resource for those with a passion for music composition. Visitors can get started...