The first breakthrough came in October 1989, when Voyager Company launched Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 CD Companion-the first consumer release

to link audio CDs and computer software to create multimedia.

It owed its beginnings to a UCLA classical music class run by Professor Robert Winter in 1982 and attended by Voyager co-founder Bob Stein. Winter used slides, tapes and performances to demonstrate the art of the great composers.

Seven years later, Stein was able to turn teacher Winter's ability into a ground-breaking CD-ROM.

It uses a recording of the Vienna Philharmonic, with soprano Joan Sutherland and contralto Marilyn Home, plus superb commentary by Winter. The CD-ROM includes

an essay on The Art of Listening, a glossary of musical examples, audio samples and the ability to pause the music at any point and link to related materials elsewhere on the disc. Winter has since produced several other masterpieces for Voyager, and in 1994 co-founded his own interactive company, Calliope Media.

Accelerated learning teachers wishing to explore the potential for interactive musical CD-ROMs are urged to read Entertainment In the Cyber Zone, by Chris McGowan

and Jim McCullaugh, Random House, New York (1995).

There are now many other excellent music teachers specializing in accelerated learning, among them: in Australia, Glenn Capelli of the True Learning Center; and in the United States Ivan Barzakov and Pamela Rand of the Barzak Educational Institute; Don Campbell of the Institute for Music, Health and Education; Chris Brewer; and Dr. Arthur Harvey of the LIND Institute in San Francisco. The newest program available is The Music Revolution, by co-author Dr. Jeannette Vos, for publication in 1999. The total program includes six CDs, covering all ways to use music for teaching, training and learning, and a guide-book that gives specific suggestions for using each CD track.