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
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!
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!)
Photo by Sean McGlincy.