LIEDER TEXTS PAGE original-language, public-domain texts used by Schubert, Brahms, Mahler and others
THE SYMPHONIES OF GUSTAV MAHLER ON RECORD "Imagine that the Universe bursts into song. We hear no longer human voices, but those of planets and suns which revolve." (Mahler, in a letter to Mengelberg, on his Symphony No. 8)
EINE MAHLER HOMEPAGE Mahler's orchestral music is clear, complex, and full of musical imagery, from the heavenly to the banal (the family lived near a military barracks, so march tunes sometimes appear; an argument was associated with the sound of a hurdy-gurdy outside the window). The "program" in the incredible symphonies is therefore that of personal tragedy and hope projected onto a universal scale
DAS BEATLES "something always there to remind me..."
KOLB-PROUST ARCHIVES
In the fall of 1993 the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research was organized at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Professor Robert Wedgeworth, University Librarian, established the Archive to make available to scholars the data and documents collected by Philip Kolb, Professor of French at the University of Illinois, and the editor of the correspondence of Marcel Proust.
DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY beautiful, illuminating exhibit of title pages from old editions
LitKicks features Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, "The Beat Generation", "Films about the Beats", "Buddhism: The Beat Religion" and "Recent Beat News", Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, and Michael McClure and others
Open Horizons Publishing Company independent publishing's marketing Guru John Kremer shares tips, priceless advice and much hard-earned wisdom. His 1001 Ways To Market Your Books is a must for all beginning or advanced independent publishers and writers
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS developed by a pretty amazing person, pushing web envelopes. He is Malcolm Humes and check out his vicarious diversions which include Eno, Frith, Cage, Theremin, VCD Sequence Generator and more
THE WHOLE BRAIN ATLAS the mother of all brains; an information resource for central nervous system imaging which integrates clinical information with magnetic resonance (MR), x-ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear
medicine images. The Atlas project is made possible by the Departments of Radiology and Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard
Medical School, the Countway Library of Medicine, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the American Academy of Neurology
THE HYPERZONE pizza deliverer / Interdepartmental Neuroscience PhD Program graduate student extraordinaire John C. Klopp's site, from where the above brain animation originates
e:media publications demonstrate interesting web designs. Discovered throughQLD, Queensland's WWW Music Connection
JOHN C. LILLY Physician and psychoanalyst specializing in biophysics, neurophysiology, electronics, computer theory, and neuroanatomy. The man who taught dolphins how to speak English! Inventor of The Isolation Tank Method.
SONY continue to release some good music (Jeff Buckley, many Classical titles, jazz reissues, etc.) and I've heard from a reliable source that a huge software company actually gets "inspired" by these WWW pages' code... say no MORE!
COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL perfect for all those times you had wished you were reading about it, rather then hearing it
VocalTec THE solution for all IBM owners with inflated long-distance phone bills: these people phone over the Net! Macs, as usual, must wait
INTERNET MUSIC SHOP news, information, samples and email-order facilities for much sheet music, music books, music software and MIDI (British based)
IRCAM, Paris the one and only Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique @ Centre Georges Pompidou (is that a good thing?). They also have a delightful, colorful fountain on top of themselves @ Stravinsky Square
HITLER & LANGUAGE Wolfgang Miedner's examination "'... as if I were the master of the situation': Proverbial Manipulation in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf" from University Of Tasmania @ Australia's De Proverbio, an Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies