Here’s where you can find links to other parts of the music department, other areas of Stanford, and a variety of musically interesting sites; we do try to keep this page updated, so if you should find a broken link, please let us know!

Music Department Links

• CCRMA: Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
• CCARH: Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities
• Music Library
• Friends of Music at Stanford (formerly the Music Guild)
• Stanford Jazz Workshop
• St. Lawrence String Quartet
• St. Lawrence String Quartet 2006 Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford
• Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Choral Union China Tour

Stanford Links

• Admission Office
• Campus Tours
• Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
• Continuing Studies: always offering music courses for the community
• Introduction to the Humanities: Area One courses for freshman
• Stanford Daily: Stanford’s student-run newspaper
• Stanford Home
• List of local hotels and motels
• School of Humanities and Sciences
• Stanford Lively Arts
• Index of Stanford Websites
• Music4All, a student group devoted to performing music for the disabled community
• Savoyards (Gilbert & Sullivan repertory theater company on campus)

Local Music Sources

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• Artsopolis–Silicon Valley: All arts. Online. Anytime.
• San Francisco Opera: student price tickets!
• San Francisco Symphony: student price tickets!
• San Francisco Classical Voice: reviews and essays about the local scene
• Other Minds Festival: held every March; student tickets are available
• Opera San Jose
• Symphony Silicon Valley
• West Bay Opera

Music Sources on the Web

General Musical Information

• Classical Cat: Free catalog of classical music MP3s, with over 500 selections
• Choral Public Domain Library: FREE choral sheet music!
• Global Music Network: free downloads and premium content for chamber music, opera, and jazz
• Grove Music: the New Grove Dictionary, search-accessible from Stanford computers
• Classical Net: Repertoire, CD guides, composer info, review, and articles
• Musical America: Industry news, calendars, manager searches, and more
• Musical Classica: bios, librettos, photos, MP3s and Midi archives, and more!
• RedLudwig: a general site with news and reviews, a “healthy sense of humor, and a penchant for pointing out classical music's weird intersections with mainstream culture”
• The Classical Music Navigator: composers, styles, general educational material
• Music Teacher International: tips and hints for teachers, essays, interviews, reviews, etc.
• FanFaire: far-reaching zine with concert listings, CD reviews, interviews, downloads, even recipes from favorite performers
• Internet Cello Society: for cellists, obviously

Composers

• Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers: fun, but useful, too!
• Kapralova: all about women composers
• New Music Works: for composers and performers of new music

Chamber Music

• Chamber Music America: for anyone interested in chamber music
• Chamber Musicians of Northern California: meet and play with others here!

Festivals and Events

• Pacific Music Festival: A festival founded by Leonard Bernstein, held in Japan.
• Florence International Music Summer Campus: Classical and jazz summer courses at the Florence Music School "Il Trillo", with musicians and teachers of international fame.

New Music

• American Composers Forum: support for composers through grants, performances, and new markets
• American Music Center: a community for new music
• Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers
• New Music Works: a platform for composers, performers and lovers of new classical music
• The Living Music Foundation: for composers, performers, and those interested in new music
• Sequenza 21: A weekly e-zine on new American music
• Other Minds: A new music and film festival based in San Francisco

Other Music Departments

• Listing of Music Departments Worldwide

Musical Humor

• Instrument Jokes
• Lark in the Morning Musical Jokes: also a great site for unusual instruments
• Musician Jokes (1): Duck's Deluxe, claiming to be the World's Largest Collection of Musician Jokes
• Musician Jokes (2): Hot Sound Studios' collection (watch out for the link at the bottom!)
• Musician Jokes (3): and the contender from SuperDigital
• Elephants Yeah!: or backtrack to RatherGood for a large selection of very weird music videos

Miscellaneous

• California Lawyers for the Arts: a non-profit, pro bono group that can help artists with a variety of legal needs

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