NewMusic

Welcome to Network’s new blog! We’re pretty excited to have a way to bring you some of the Network news and background stories on a more real-time basis…Facebook is fun, but sometimes we’d just like a little more room than 420 characters!

We’ll start this out the easy way and talk about Network’s season and the terrific music (and more!) that you’ll find here, but we hope to widen the conversation as we go along.  We love to hear about the amazing cultural life that characterizes Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, St. Louis, London…it’s a rich and vivid world of art out there, and we look forward to exploring it all with you.

I’ve been using the royal “we,” and really, this blog is from all of us at Network–but in fact, today’s post is just by me, Lisa Miller. I’ve been with Network since 1997, and I’ve probably met some of you (I hope a lot of you!) at Network’s concerts, or talked to you on the phone. I’m also the one who’s been randomly popping up in front of people after a concert, asking them to make a few comments for the camera. (I know, it’s only semi-polite to sail up and ask like that, but it’s actually pretty fun to hear what strikes people right after hearing a performance. Once they start talking about the music, they usually forget about the camera and become really passionate about what they felt as they listened. It’s a blast to hear!)

When I get a chance I’ll post some of those video comments here or on Network’s Facebook page. But in the meantime, since I brought up having opinions: what nicer way to begin this blog than sharing some of the enthusiasm that a couple of reviewers felt for our recent concert The Poetry of Solo, when we played upstairs at the World Cafe? Here you go:  Tom Purdom’s article in the Broad Street Review, and Chuck Holdeman, in a blog post for LocalArtsLive.

Please come back to our site often–we’ll have much more from the composers and artists we’re working with this season, plus posts from Linda Reichert, Network’s Artistic Director, and Judith Mendelsohn, our Program Associate, and others.  And I hope you’ll always feel free to share your opinions with us, through our website or just by emailing or posting to our Facebook page–we love to hear from you.