Comments by John Melby
from the December, 2002 issue of NewMusicBox,
the on-line magazine of the The
American Music Center
Theodore Presser Company: Home Page
Theodore Presser Composers Gallery
Sibelius
(music notation software)
The Music, Mind and Machine Group at the MIT Media Laboratory
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
Brandeis University Music Department
Joel Eric Suben (Save the Music, Inc.)
Consortium to Distribute Computer Music
The Arnold Schoenberg Center
(English page)
Here's a link that has absolutely nothing to do with music — but if you're a railroad fan, as am I, then
click it and
see what's there! NOTE: This page displays the images in-line. Since many of them are
rather large, the page may
take a long time to load. For a page that displays links to the photos rather than showing the pictures in-line,
click here.
This link is to the bank in Whitehall, Wisconsin, founded by (and still bearing the name
of)
my great-grandfather, who came to the United States from Norway in the mid-nineteenth century.
There can be no justification whatever for the inclusion of this link on
any web site, much less this one,
except that it's so far the nuttiest site that I've come across anywhere — and that's saying a lot!
And finally, for those who wonder for what sort of perverse reason an otherwise (supposedly) rational person such as I would go into
a profession at which it is virtually impossible to make a living, here is a link to a subject (with which I have been intimately familiar
since the age of seven) that may or may not provide some insight. I tried to come up with a catchy title for this link and ended up with
(By the way, I can spell!)
