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Credits and CopyrightsThanks to the REC Music Foundation, to Michael Oltz for permission to use his VocaList Booklist and to the makers of all the fine web sites and tools listed below. Icons are immediately below, then copyright information, then information about the people and products I wish to thank.
Some images modified from copyright © 1998-1999 ArtToday images. "daringdiva.com", "Daring Diva", "The Daring Diva's Treasure Map", "Singer's Bibliography", and "The Diva's Descriptive Art Song Catalog" are copyright © 1998-1999 Gerbrand Poster. The contents and organization of the site are also © 1998-1999 Gerbrand Poster except for the many contributions of site visitors and the information from the VocaList Booklist. Please feel free to use this site as a research resource, and to make personal copies of the information here for your own use. However, please do not redistribute the information here in any form; instead, send others to this web site so that they might also become contributors to the site. Thank you. I built this site with a lot of help from other people and with a number of great inexpensive tools. REC Music FoundationThe REC Music Foundation, which also supports two of the best singing sites on the web, has provided this site with a considerable (for us!) grant to include RealAudio clips within our song catalog. The Foundation's generosity is much appreciated and we hope that the site's continued growth supports the REC Music Foundation's strong vote of confidence. PublishersClassical Vocal Reprints, ECS Publishing, PeerMusic, Ricordi Canada (Counterpoint Musical Services), and Carl Fischer have all contributed music to this site. Their generosity is much appreciated, and I hope new interest and performances of their composers' vocal music is sparked by the information contained here. Michael Oltz and VocaListMichael Oltz has provided his fantastic VocaList Book List compilation for inclusion on this web site. My sincere thanks for allowing us to present his work. His BookList is the compilation of many people's knowledge from the Internet singing discussion list VocaList. VocaList already publishes all of their discussions to their web site, but Michael Oltz organized the book recommendations from several years and I have reorgainzed that information quite a bit. Please check out the web site and the discussion list. voytech
Allaire HomeSiteI have now moved yet again to a new html editor. Like AOLPress, FrontPage proved again too buggy so I am now trying out Allaire HomeSite 4.0, which has won a number of awards for best HTML editor. I miss things like the image map creator in AOLPress and FrontPage, and the help isn't as complete as I would like for things like JavaScript, but I must admit that it's pretty good. AOLPressAOLpress 2.0 is a free WYSIWYG web page creator that also lets you browse and edit HTML directly. It includes an image map creator and very easy to use frame creation. Many thanks to AOL for letting me and everyone else use their proprietary web page editor. I began this site using AOLpress. I only decided to change to Microsoft FrontPage because I was running into too many bugs with AOLPress. Your mileage may vary. Paint Shop ProPaint Shop Pro 5.0 is a fabulous image editing and creating program from JASC. It was still in beta when I made most of my home-made images for this site, but I broke down and bought it for the great price of US$70. The list price is US$100, but you can probably find it cheaper if you don't buy it directly through JASC (I saw it recently at Best Buy for somewhere around $60 or $70). It is shareware, so you can try before you buy if you download the program from the website. GrafoManiac is my favorite location for Paint Shop Pro hints and filters, by the way. ArtTodayArtToday is a wonderful service that gives you access to tons of images (>700,000 last I checked) and even lots of fonts (>2,150) that are all well indexed for easy, direct searches. It costs $20 for a year. It's a real bargain in my book. Almost all of the images on this site except for the small square icons I used as bullets and section dividers are modified versions of images I downloaded from this service. EarthlinkEarthlink is our internet server. We like it so far. They are far faster than AOL, cheaper, don't give constant "Click here to stay online" messages, and don't inundate us with ads. To be honest, we figure everyone on AOL just doesn't know that there are far better deals out there. You can even still do AOL Instant Messenger if you want, and for free! And informing everyone of address changes is really quite easy--just use a bulk emailing with CC: or BCC:. Check them out. Earthlink has a number of good web-site tools here. Internet Explorer and FrontPage 98We use IE 5.0. Thanks for the free stuff, Mr. Gates. It is pretty cool. At the beginning of summer 1998 I switched from AOLPress to FrontPage 98 (street price about US$120). I also check out the site on Netscape Navigator 4.5; the site looks quite different on the two browsers because of some limitation to Netscape Navigator, but I think both looks have turned out well. Jeffrey ZeldmanI got the small square icons with the cool images from Jeffrey Zeldman. They're pretty cool, and he has a lot more! Check it out. addr.comWe currently are using addr.com as our web hosting service. About US$10 a month for 40 Megs, Front Page extensions, unlimited hits (not that we need that yet :-), a majordomo server (which I have not set up yet), and some ok stats. Not bad. They're customer support has ranged widely; I'd say the best summary is that if you know what you are doing a bit then you should be fine but if you are a bit of a newbie to all of this then you may want a more user-friendly web provider (particularly if you are using Front Page). We may move to Burlee if we get bigger later.
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