Tonight Itzhak Perlman and the Philadelphia Orchestra play the first-ever pay-per-listen orchestral concert over the internet, launching the new Classical Music Internet Agreement, the deal in which 65 leading ensembles worked out an agreement with the on-line network and the American Federation of Musicians. “In this era of dwindling CD sales and the lack of recording contracts by most prominent American orchestras (including the Philadelphians), this initiative may well be the prelude to a new future for musical organizations.” – Philadelphia Daily News