Five years after launching an ambitious mix of online music news, cultural coverage, and digital audio, the web site Andante.com has closed up shop. “The site’s mission was to be no less than the leading classical music site on the Internet—and the leading source for digital classical recordings, a position that was up for grabs in the pre-iTunes era.” Andante was bought by a French record label in 2003, and its demise followed an announcement from the label that it could no longer afford to support the site.