Classical Editor: Rob Barnett Music Webmaster Len Mullenger: Len@musicweb.uk.net

Help Wanted + Scrolling Scripts

Financing the site

This website has been in existence for five years and has been phenomenally successful. There are nearly 100 contributors producing material who include approx. 30 reviewers producing around 200 reviews each month. The component parts of the site are organized by four editors. However there are two limitations to our continuing expansion. One of these is financial and is dealt with in the  opposite box. I, Len Mullenger, am the site owner and webmaster and I do all the scripting. I have just about reached the limit of what it is possible for me to do each month. I need help to put these pages together. This month, April 2000, I have not been able to complete the scrolling scripts for the classical reviews nor add each of the March Film Music reviews to the composer index. For the same reason there never has been a Classical composer index of reviews. The scrolling scripts are compilations of the month's reviews to assist those who wish to print them. There are two parallel sets, with and without CD cover graphics. If you are able to help and  produce these for me (it would only take an evening) please drop me an e-mail: Len@musicweb.uk.net The original raison d'être, when this website was launched, was to provide a FREE service to promote composers and their work, particularly British composers, many of whom are not represented elsewhere on the web, and that continues to be one of its prime objectives and service offered. Its coverage and readership has expanded world wide.

The assumption was that Music on the Web would earn enough in CD retailer partner schemes and advertisements to enable me to pay for help in putting the site together,  to commission composer articles, pay copyright dues and pay something to the 100 contributors and editors. Five years clearly has not been enough to reach that position. An alternative would be to make this a subscription site. That in itself costs a considerable amount of money that would not be justified unless we were to sell CDs at the same time. That is not an attractive option as it would require considerable office staff. It was never the intention that this be a fully commercial site. We need some financial support above what we can earn from CD sales. What this site needs are donations or even better a private or commercial sponsor. Can you help with either of these things? Donations  by cheque may be made out to Music on the Web (UK) and sent to Music On the Web, 95 Arnold Avenue, Coventry, CV3 5ND, UK. (Overseas cheques cost £5 to process) . Thanks (in anticipation). Len