Sunday, February 05, 2006

At andante.com, the finale

Andante.com, website devoted to classical music that combined a news service with a record label with streaming music from symphony orchestras, shut down this week after its French owner decided it was unable to sustain the site's costs. The news is either another sign of the demise of classical music, an indicator that the Web and the symphony are an awkward fit, or neither of the above