Website of particular interest

Ionarts (www.ionarts.org) is an on-line journal for classical music, culture, and the fine arts in the greater Washington area. From humble beginnings in June 2003, it has now grown into one of the region's most important sources for independent concert reviews and cultural commentary in and around Washington, D.C. The moderator of Ionarts, Dr. Charles T. Downey, was featured as Blogger of the Month for December 2007 by Marc Fisher of the Washington Post.

Ionarts is updated daily with reviews of a broad selection of concerts in the area (as well as occasional out-of-town reports), reviews of new classical CD and DVD releases, notices of classical music and arts news culled from newspapers around the world, and links to interesting articles in other publications. The site also features an extensive and nearly exhaustive calendar of classical performances in the Washington-Baltimore region. Although the primary focus is classical music, other writers contribute occasional pieces on art and film, which make the Web site of interest to Internet visitors beyond classical music connoisseurs.

They have not been able to cover all Vocal Arts recitals, but have written well about those that they could:

• Christian Gerhaher
• Konrad Jarnot
• Christine Schafer