New music, old music...It's all great!

March 11, 5:32 PMPhiladelphia Orchestral Arts ExaminerChris Kilian

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The Network for New Music will be hosting a concert in West Chester University's Gates Recital Hall on Thursday, March 12th at 4pm.  This recital will feature compositions by five student composers who worked in close collaboration with WCU art students to create pairs of music and art.  The performance is open to the public.

The "Network" has been around for about 23 years now, and is dedicated to performing and recording new works.  They collaborate with their artists and work hard to bring great, new music to the masses.  I highly suggest attending this concert or others in the near future.  I will be attending on Thursday and will have a full report upon my return!

As one might expect at one of the world's premier music schools, the performance schedule for the Curtis Institute of Music on Locust St. in Philly is packed!  I'm looking forward to making it down there for one of the many free student performances in March, as well as some of the pay (but cheap) performances.  Click on the link in my list on the right to check out their schedule and make it a point to get down to Curtis before the end of the school year.  The future of music in America and, indeed, the world resides there.  These just might be the best musical performances in the area that many of you have never attended or even heard of.

The Philadelphia Orchestra has a schedule full of masterworks this year!  This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday they're closing out their concerts with Dvorák's well known Symphony No. 9 "From the New World."   This is a piece quite close to my heart, because we performed an arrangement of it in my high school marching band my freshman year.  I know, I know...marching band.  Seriously, a lot of kids are exposed to orchestral literature through their experience in marching or concert band.  I know I was exposed to Dvorák , Leoncavallo, Puccini, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and many more through my years in band and drum corps.  Hopefully I can get down there this weekend, but if I can't I hope that some of you out there in "Examiner Land" will write me with a full review of how the Philly O handled this and the other great pieces on the concert.