NewMusic

Reviews

Audience members say this:

"oh, we loved it; the care, the passion, the virtuoso skills, the wit, the fresh-fresh-ness. it is such a great blessing to have your amazing music in our lives." (re: excerpts from the Poetry Project, Jan. 20, 2008)

"It was the event of a lifetime…I wanted to stand up out of my wheelchair and shout "I can walk!"
(re: The Vanishing Pavilions, Oct. 14, 2006; from an audience member recuperating from foot surgery)

"Thank you for your low-impact, high-connect, deeply spiritual and respectful and smart cultural style." (re: Sonia Songs, March 19, 2006)

Composers chime in:

"GREAT! SUPERB performances of my PULSAR and INCANTATION!!!
THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!!!!!" 

--Augusta Read Thomas, Pulsar and Incantation (2005)

"To all members (on and off-stage) of NNM that organized, rehearsed, and performed the beautiful concert last evening in the Perelman Theater - Thank you! The concert was wonderful….In short, the Network for New Music is a composer's dream organization, and I am extremely grateful to have worked with you."

--Daniel Shapiro, Rosetta Stone (2008)

"Working with the Network for New Music is a composer’s dream. Here you have some of the finest chamber musicians in the country asking for new works which challenge them to greater levels of achievement. NNM is complete in its enthusiasm for the continuum of music as it evolves in our culture. These musicians set the standard—for performance, interpretation, and above all, the ecosystem which surrounds the music of our time."

--Libby Larsen, Songs of Light and Love

Let's hear it from the press:

"It can almost go without saying, for those familiar with this ensemble, that the playing was superb. But this should never be taken for granted. I look forward to celebrating the Network's 50th anniversary."

--Peter Burwasser, Broad St. Review

"Network's performances were all excellent, but this one...was heroic."

--David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"I didn't know what to expect when I set off for the latest Network for New Music event.  As it turned out, Network mounted one of the most satisfying concerts I've attended this season."

--Tom Purdom, Broad St. Review

"Network for New Music went particularly far afield...with eminent pianist Leon Fleisher...What an exhilarating concert it was."

--David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The venerable Bernard Rands...liberates Debussy with [works that were] beautiful in their considered points of view and deeply cultivated execution."

--David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The Network for New Music attracts some of Philadelphia’s best chamber players. They may not pick all the music themselves, but they wouldn’t come back, season after season, if they didn’t have some confidence in the choices Music Director Linda Reichert and her associates come up with. the result is a series of encounters between musicians and composers in which the audience—not just the composers and performers—comes out a winner."

--Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review

"[In] Network for New Music’s fine season-closing concert…The three excellent works at hand represented clear, personal sensibilities, and were so well-performed that they never bounced off your skull..." 

--David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"An Evening of Latin American New Music,” eight recent works by composers from Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Seven were Washington premieres, and one a U.S. debut...All the works were superbly rendered by the Network for New Music in differing combinations..." 

--Cecelia Porter, The Washington Post

"The Network for New Music has become a powerful force in enlarging the chamber music repertory, with a long list of commissions to its credit...the ensemble's virtuosity and ability to plumb emotional depths is supported by shrewd programming."

--Tom DiNardo, Philadelphia Daily News

"...[Network for New Music] played like the best classical orchestral ensemble. More than anything else, the musicians displayed confidence, playing phrases as if they were known since their conservatory days instead of hot off the presses."

--Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The range of music that was heard at the Network for New Music concert on March 5 was notably refreshing because it embraced no particular ideology. It simply celebrated craft and passion in a variety of stylistic guises...

"(It was)...a musical experience that was at once casual and deeply committed to a living, breathing art form. It speaks eloquently to the power of fresh, new music that the Network for New Music, despite a slender budget, attracts musicians of world-class caliber...There is a powerful synergy at these concerts, between composer, performer and audience, that is unique and thrilling."

--Peter Burwasser, Philadelphia City Paper