Classical.com is launched. (Items of Interest).

Classical.com Ltd. introduces the library world's first streaming classical music service, allowing library patrons to listen and learn as they access thousands of classical music recordings.

Classical.com is a user-friendly service presenting easily customized, on-demand listening for library users of 10,000+ classical music recordings. Users can browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. , search and arrange the music in any way they choose.

Also included in the annual subscriptions is access to supplementary resources, including hundreds of themed play lists, thousands of key composer and artist biographies, program notes on key works and movements, daily classical music news and weekly features, and a Classical Music Beginner's Guide, timeline

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Ron Rietdyk, chair of Classical.com, states, "Classical.com's library service is unique, in that it provides an `always-on' classical music resource accessible 24/7 by any authenticated au·then·ti·cate
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Since 2000, Classical.com Ltd. has been a world leader in providing interactive music services to libraries, businesses and consumers, with an extensive catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of music, including the most famous classical music works.

For more information contact Vicki Allpress or Mike Dupler, Classical.com, (212) 689-0536, e-mail vicki@classical.com or mike@classical.com, or visit www.classical.com.

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