A Classical Music Lover's Xanadu is a site in GeoCities Vienna and a club in the land of Yahoo. Both are concerned with classical music. School work limits Scott McKee's ability to update his site as he would like. "I originally planned to feature a new composer each week, with links, pictures, a biography, and some midis," Scott said. "Making sure that I gradute on time with a good GPA, and sending out my portfolio everywhere so that I can try to get some work pushes my updates to the side at the moment."

McKee's interest in classical music has been with him all his life, he said, and is what inspired him to build his site. Living in the Buffalo, New York, area, he is also blessed to have the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), the University of Buffalo's musical events, Canisius College's MusiCanisius program with the BPO, and the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. "I'm set into a great cycle of concerts and performances," the webmaster said.

Meanwhile, his club has been going strong since Aug. 22, 1998. The name, of course, comes from the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about the "stately pleasure dome" decreed by Kublai Khan. And that's how McKee wants his site to be in the minds of its visitors.

Beethoven, the Magnificent Master, never had it so good as at this shrine developed by Canadian resident Ingrid Sabharwal-Schwaegermann. Extensive biographies, a complete list of works by genre, a pictorial view of his life, research projects into certain areas, wave files (which we hope to convince the webmistress to convert and offer as streaming files), and more, believe it or not, make this one of the ultimate sites for discovery of Beethoven's life and career. Besides writing for her own website in both English and German, Ingrid writes for a local monthly German-Canadian Edmonton newspaper entitled Albertaner, and has promised to send something our way someday soon.

The Stringstuff Page is full of colorful backgrounds, buttons, interesting weekly polls and quizzes, free music graphics, and many chances to communicate with the Pennsylvanian webmistress Lauren. One of many sites that are owned by teachers, this string instructor is very busy keeping her site updated. Still in the intermediate stages of learning HTML, Lauren says she plans to keep learning so she can expand, creating more graphics and music, pages of biographies of various composers, and more fun.

French Horn Resource Page is the creation of one of our recent community leader graduates, Paul Huang. Paul is also our newest contributor to Vienna Online and came up with his own topic to write about in "Instrumentally Speaking." Billing himself as an interested amateur, his knowledge about instruments is nonetheless something that we all can share, and as time goes on more and more aspects of the instruments in the orchestra will come to light. As for the French horn, look no further than Paul's site for excellent player's information.

The Brass Crest is the unofficial site of brass bands, and in particular Salvation Army Bands. One of the neatest sites I've seen in a long time, Robert Schramm, its creator, has succeeded in gathering first-rate source material and presenting it in his own well written and easy-to-understand style. Very few sites do it better, IMHO.

And those are our five sites honored this past month. Give them a visit, say hi in their guestbooks, and make them feel welcome as you make your way through wonderful GeoCities Vienna.

Robert Farley (aka cl_kaulana) is a long-time community leader whose site is also on the list of Vienna Award winners. As a leader, he's ready to answer your questions, and looks forward to finding the next sites to write about in "Visiting Vienna." Did we mention his website is located at Strasse 7000? If you know of a site that should be on the itinerary of "Visiting Vienna" or have any other questions, direct them to cl_kaulana@oocities.com. Sites mentioned here are eligible to wear the beautiful graphic at the right. You'll be archived here for as long as we're here (a long time, we hope), as well as on Robert's Great Sites page.