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Upcoming Webcasts

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Reaching music lovers online

With the aid of the World Wide Web and Internet2, the Northwestern University School of Music has big plans for sharing with the world live interactive video master classes, concert broadcasts, and special events for young audiences this season.

Live master classes featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Goode, the inaugural winner of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, and former Berlin Philharmonic principal clarinetist Karl Leister were broadcast via Internet2 last spring and were widely viewed and well received. The classes were also made available as live webcasts on the World Wide Web for anyone with Internet access and free RealPlayer video viewing software.

Our webcast events are also recorded and later made available in streaming form in an online video archive on our website. Specific information about webcast events, personnel and content will be announced here on our Pick-Staiger website.

Want to watch our webcasts?

A link to each webcast will appear on the www.pickstaiger.org homepage ten to fifteen minutes prior to the concert start time. Please make sure that you are clicking the refresh button on your browser as this time approaches in order to see the link.

The latest version of RealPlayer and a good broadband connection of at least 768Kbps download speed are required for optimum viewing.

You can test your RealPlayer and your network connectivity by visiting this webpage to access the RealPlayer test stream, which will be a 384Kbps looping video. Please note that we recommend wired network connections to ensure the best possible results.

For those institutions who have access to Internet2, you can view the high bandwidth mpeg2 multicast feed using VLC player (www.videolan.org) or by using an mpeg2 decoder. There will be a 7.0 Mbps test multicast feed available at 233.0.103.110 on port 1234 on March 18, 19, 25, 26 and April 1 and 2. The test multicast feed will consist of a looping video that will provide audio and video to verify your Internet2 network capabilities.

For questions about testing the RealPlayer or the mpeg2 multicast feed, please contact Michael Curtis at m-curtis@northwestern.edu. All other technical questions about the webcasts should be directed to nusmweb@northwestern.edu.

So, what did you think?

Please share your feedback with us! E-mail pick-staiger@northwestern.edu after watching one of our webcasts and give us your comments or suggestions.

Thanks for your interest in the exciting intersection of music and technology!