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LONDON, April 15, 1999 — Global Music Network (www.gmn.com), the most-recognized destination for classical music on the World Wide Web, announced today that it has secured prominent position within Microsoft’s Web Events site.
LONDON, April 15, 1999 — Global Music Network (www.gmn.com), the most-recognized destination for classical music on the World Wide Web, announced today that it has secured prominent position within Microsoft’s Web Events site, http://webevents.microsoft.com.
Logging onto the site now gives visitors access to GMN’s high-quality audio and video content delivered with Microsoft’s new Windows Media Technologies 4.0. GMN.com offers classical music, jazz and opera lovers the best in Web-based entertainment.
“This relationship further secures our preeminent position as a global entertainment provider,” said GMN Chief Executive Officer Mike Lubin. “We are proud to be participating with Microsoft in the launch of the new Windows Media 4.0. As a leader in our Internet segment, we embrace the most popular technologies to insure the widest distribution of our content and the broadest exposure for our family of world-class artists.”
“Internet audio and video are becoming increasingly popular sources of entertainment,” said Greg Carpenter, Group Product Manager, Windows Media, Microsoft Corp. “GMN.com offers visitors a tremendous wealth of classical music and videos than can be seen and heard with Windows Media Player. We are excited that GMN is supporting Windows Media 4.0.”
Offering a confluence of music, video, text and images, GMN.com presents a high- impact experience to site users. Its hallmark is an intimate, multimedia experience with the world’s finest musicians, conductors and artists. These artists, exclusively online with GMN.com, are often seen and heard in the context of a live, dynamic performance – an exciting, integral part of the GMN experience.
These musical celebrities not only perform, but through special links they also educate visitors by taking them, with full commentary, on a passionate exploration of the world's most dramatic and important musical events, past and present. The site also provides free and immediate access to these artists’ and other complete works of music with the ability to purchase and download custom-compiled works. GMN.com plans to broaden its artistic venue by bringing and entire array of cultural and performing arts to its site.
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