The other day I mentioned the Obrecht Mass site, which allows you to hear the music, follow the score bar by bar, and read commentary. There are various online projects in this vein. Also worth investigating are Carnegie Hall's Performance Guides for the Schubert piano sonatas and the Bartók quartets, which mix video commentary (by Leon Fleisher and members of the Emerson Quartet) with animated scores.... William Steinway's Diary, a blow-by-blow account of musical life from 1861 to 1896, is now online.... Here's a behind-the scenes video for the accurately named innova label.... In a video interview for the Danish label dacapo, Per Nørgård talks about he perusaded György Ligeti to listen to the late-Romantic visionary Rued Langgaard. (Thanks to Eduardo Fernandez.) ... Connoisseurs of fictional composers will be glad to find that Charles Jessold, the murderous hero of Wesley Stace's eponymous novel, has his own website. Daniel Felsenfeld has "realized" one of Jessold's works.... The Kaufman Center's Ecstatic Music Festival kicks off with a marathon on Jan. 17.... A sound investment: Carlos Kleiber's Tristan, Traviata, Freischütz, Fledermaus, Brahms 4, Beethoven 5 and 7, and Schubert for less than fifty dollars. But: no texts.... Best Music Writing 2011, which I'm co-editing with Daphne Carr, is accepting submissions. We're seeking the widest possible representation of genres and traditions.
