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BBC Music Profiles: Edgard Varèse  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutmusic/profiles/varese.shtml  Summary biography, recommended listening and reading, audio clips in RAM format, photo, and links.  Composer Biography: Varese, Edgard  - http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/composer.asp?nodeid=199&strchar=T  Listing with the San Francisco Symphony includes photograph and list of works.  Edgar Varese  - http://www.planetzappa.com/discography/related/varese/  Listing at PlanetZappa provides biography, photograph, and background on Frank Zappa's recording of The Rage and The Fury.  Edgar Varèse  - http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/varese.html  Biographical entry from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music with photograph and links to related composers at the Classical Music Pages.  Edgard Varese: Father of Electronic Music  - http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/varese.html  Detailed exploration of his lead in the new medium and the wait for technology to catch up. Includes introductions to works, comments by Frank Zappa, and photographs.  Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)  - http://www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/Projects/EAM/Varese.html  Entry from the Electro-acoustic Music pages of the University of Illinois' Computer-Assisted Music Instruction Lab. Focuses on his electronic compositions.  Edgard Varèse and Electronic Instruments  - http://theremin.info/composers/edgard-varese.shtml  Details much of his pioneering work in the field with special emphasis on the theramin-cello. Includes photo and links.  The Rage and The Fury: The Music of Edgard Varese  - http://www.zappa.com/MUSIC/varese.html  Notes on Frank Zappa's 1993 recording with Peter Eötvos and members of The Ensemble Modern. Includes audio samples in WAV, AIFF, and AU formats.  The Organized Sound of Edgard Varèse  - http://www.humanitiesweb.org/cgi-bin/human.cgi?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=70  Key works, suggested reading, timeline, recommended reading, photograph, and quotes from Humanities Web.  IMDb: Edgard Varèse  - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0889679/  Filmography at IMDb with brief family background.  Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)  - http://www.naxos.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Varese,%20Edgard  Brief biographical sketch, comments on works, and Naxos discography.  Edgar Varèse (1883-1965)  - http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/varese.html  Karadar dictionary entry with life, photographs, related composers, and listing of important works.