RECOMMENDATIONS
Scroll down and enjoy exploring some of our favorite recommendations for musicians, music leaders, and music lovers!
We will continue to add to our Hub, please come back again!
Playlists
Check out our SoundCloud Playlists featuring some music of Spanish Composers from our Spanish Composers Initiative, and a few other fun playlists for your listening pleasure!
Miscellany
While we know there are a great many additional websites, books, organizations, artists, and more out there, these are some particular favorites of ours or are fascinating, unique, and/or impactful resources that we’d like to draw attention to as a part of who we are and in our journey as musicians, and as a part of our mission at 2 Batons.
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Music
Leonard Bernstein - The Unanswered Question Six Talks at Harvard
Deryck Cooke - The Language of Music
Thurston Dart - The Interpretation of Music
Arnold Dolmetsch - The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Don Greene - Performance Success and Audition Success
Maja Metelska-Räsänen - Score Reading of Orchestral Music
Rimsky-Korsakov - Principles of Orchestration
Vincent Persichetti - Twentieth- Century Harmony
Steven Rosenhaus - The Concert Composer’s Business Handbook
Anthony Storr - Music and the Mind
Arthur Weisberg - Performing Twentieth-Century Music, A Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists
Diane Wittry - Baton Basics: Communicating Music through Gestures and Beyond the Baton
Neal Zaslow - Mozart's Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception
Leadership/Industry
Rasmus Hougaard & Jacqueline Carter - The Mind of the Leader
Gerald Klickstein - The Musician’s Way
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Adaptistration - https://adaptistration.com/
AFM Entertainment - https://www.afmentertainment.org/
American's for the Arts - https://www.americansforthearts.org/
Anna’s Composer Database - https://www.annaedwardsconductor.com/annascomposerdatabase
Arts Journal - https://www.artsjournal.com/
Benjamin Zander Center - https://www.benjaminzander.org/
Boulanger Initiative -https://www.boulangerinitiative.org/
Classical Net - http://www.classical.net/music/links/society.php
Daniels’ Orchestral Music Online (also, books) - https://daniels-orchestral.com/
Donne - Women in Music - https://donne-uk.org/
Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music c/o The Free Library of Philadelphia - https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/collection/home/page/4/id/fleisher
“Everything Conducting” - https://www.everythingconducting.com/
Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music - https://hebm.info/
Institute for Composer Diversity - https://www.composerdiversity.com/
Leonard Bernstein Office - https://www.leonardbernstein.com/
Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room - https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/performing-arts/about-this-research-center/
“Maestra” - https://maestramusic.org/
“Mathemagical Music” -https://mathemagicalmusic.weebly.com/
Mujeres en la música - https://www.mujeresenlamusica.es/
“Musical Maps” - https://musicalmaps.weebly.com/
“Music by Women” - https://www.musicbywomen.org/
Orchestralist - http://www.orchestralist.net/
“Podium Time” - https://podiumtimepod.com/
Spain Arts & Culture - https://www.spainculture.us/
String-Related Historical Information Articles: https://www.benningviolins.com/Violin-Shop-Violins-Violas-Cellos-Bows-Violinmaking-Articles-Resources.html
“Venuology” - https://venuology.org/
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Bachtrack - https://bachtrack.com/
BBC Classical Music - https://www.classical-music.com/
Classical Music Magazine - https://www.classical-music.uk/
Gramophone - https://www.gramophone.co.uk/
International Musician - https://internationalmusician.org/
The Instrumentalist - https://theinstrumentalist.com/
Musical America - https://www.musicalamerica.com/
Musical Opinion - https://www.musicalopinion.com/
Pizzicato - https://www.pizzicato.lu/
SBO+ - https://sboplus.net/
Strings Magazine - https://stringsmagazine.com/
The Strad - https://www.thestrad.com/
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MAHMA (Malibu Friends of Music): http://www.malibufriendsofmusic.org/home.html
Midwest Clinic: https://www.midwestclinic.org/
Music for All National Festival - https://festival.musicforall.org/
Strathmore: https://www.strathmore.org/
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American Composers Orchestra - https://www.americancomposers.org/
American Federation of Musicians (Musicians’ Union) - https://www.afm.org/
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) - https://www.ascap.com/
Association of Concert Bands: https://www.acbands.org/
Banda Municipal de Música de Castro Urdiales -
https://www.facebook.com/p/Banda-Municipal-de-M%C3%BAsica-de-Castro-Urdiales-100066581615799/
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) - https://www.bmi.com/
Carnegie Hall Link Up - https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Link-Up
D-Composed - https://www.dcomposed.com/
International Alliance for Women in Music - https://iawm.org/
The Kapralova Society - http://www.kapralova.org/index.htm
League of American Orchestras - https://americanorchestras.org/
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra - https://myso.org/
Mu Phi Epsilon - https://www.muphiepsilon.org/
Music Inclusion Hub - https://www.musicinclusionhub.com/
NAfME (National Association for Music Education) - https://nafme.org/
NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) - https://www.namm.org/about
New York Philharmonic Digital Archives - https://archives.nyphil.org/
Regional Orchestra Players’ Association - http://ropaweb.org/
Spanish Embassy (U. S.) - https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/WASHINGTON/en/Paginas/index.aspx
Sphinx - https://www.sphinxmusic.org/
Symphonina Foundation - https://symphonina.org/
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library - https://hispanicsociety.org/
The National Orchestra Association - https://www.nationalorchestral.org/
Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy - https://wophil.org/
World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles - https://www.wasbe.online/
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Berlin Philharmoniker/Digital Concert Hall: https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en
Chrome Music Lab: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
Conducting Batons & Cases:
Custom Batons: https://www.custombatons.net/
Garlinger Batons: https://garlingerbatons.com/
GL Custom Batons: https://www.glcustombatons.com/graphite-batons.html
Mollard: https://mollard.com/
Newland Custom Batons: https://www.newlandbatons.com/
Paez Music Batons: https://www.paezmusicshop.com/conducting-batons/
Pagu Batons: https://www.pagubatons.com/
West Music: https://www.westmusic.com/band-orchestra/conducting-batons
Golden City Graphics (2 Batons Logo Designer): https://goldencitygraphics.com/
Music Museums:
London - The Royal College of Music Museum: https://www.rcm.ac.uk/museum/
Museum of Making Music (CA): https://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/
Musical Instrument Museum (AZ): https://mim.org/
National Music Museum (SD): https://www.nmmusd.org/
Network of Houses and Museums of European Musicians: https://cemusique.org/en/mmme-network/
New Delhi - Sharan Rani Gallery of Musical Instruments (National Museum): https://www.theheritagelab.in/musical-instruments-national-museum/ and Museum of Performing Arts: https://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/museum
Paris - Musee de la Musique: https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/musee-de-la-musique
Shizuoka (Japan) - Hamamatsu Museum of Instruments: https://www.gakkihaku.jp/en/
Smithsonian Music (Washington, DC/NYC): https://music.si.edu/
Vienna - Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente, Kunsthistorisches Museum: https://www.khm.at/en/research/collections/collection-of-historic-musical-instruments
Newman Legacy Sessions: http://www.malibufriendsofmusic.org/newmanlegacysessions.html
The Classical Station (Radio/Streaming): https://theclassicalstation.org/
String Instrument Supplies (Trusted Retail): http://sharmusic.com/
