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Welcome to concertatore.com, which we believe to be the first substantial, interactive WWW site maintained by a full-time performing classical musician. We’ve tried to keep this site as simple and fast as possible since, if you’re going to download audio, that’s time-consuming enough! We welcome your feedback about it and are particularly interested in keeping the site accessible to those using older hardware and text-only systems. Please tell us that you visited and what you liked (and mention your hardware and software): Click here to leave a message.

The site began life in 1995 and has evolved as follows:

• About Joseph RESCIGNO has bio, coming engagements, and so on. You will also find a discussion of why the maestro chose concertatore as his domain name and a brief lesson in Italian pronunciation. Images grew rather numerous, so they are off on a separate page, with a slideshow for browsing and thumbnails of the biggest and most beautiful. shots, images.html.

• AUDIO began with a single clip from Verismo starring soprano Diana Soviero and using MPEG audio. We have been able to add considerably more, so be sure to visit. When we were able to add RealAudio® in mid-1998, we collected all the technical information on a separate page. There are also links to on-line ordering.

• MESSAGES TO THE MAESTRO contains questions and answers as well as a few audio files for illustrative purposes. This page quickly grew quite large and we archived the older discussions on separate pages. The page linked here contains some introduction, some links to associations and Web sites that may be better sources for certain kinds of questions, and groundrules. From there, you can click to a “Summary of Subjects,” which is a kind of table of contents. From that summary page, you can browse individual questions or search using Google.

  Since chat facilities, blogs, and bulletin boards have become so much more common on the Web nowadays, it should be noted that this is not an open forum. This is more like a “letters to the editor” facility. For that reason, in 1999, we changed the name from “Discussion Board” to “Messages to the Maestro.” Nonetheless, we are always looking for good topics, and we always respond to messages. Please read the introduction and send your question if it falls within the groundrules.

• The main menu became complicated so it is now called a site map. There are links to technical information regarding graphics and audio.
  
  
• After 12 years, we dropped the page listing other sites serving audio. The last was easy to keep up with in 1995 but grew very difficult. And we feel it no longer provides an important public service; there are so many search sites. You can begin at our very own Google search form if you like.

If there is something you are curious about and we have not explained, ask here.