{"id":1423,"date":"2017-03-24T20:59:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2017-03-24T20:59:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:59:24","slug":"jalbert-breathtaking-beauty-san-francisco-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/2017\/03\/24\/jalbert-breathtaking-beauty-san-francisco-chronicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalbert: Breathtaking Beauty (San Francisco Chronicle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Bermel-SF-Chronicle-graphic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1112 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Bermel-SF-Chronicle-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"Bermel SF Chronicle graphic\" width=\"321\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>New Release! &#8220;Secret Alchemy&#8221; from Copland House, and Joshua Kosman of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/HzrB30aeQFp\">The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/span> talks about <strong>Pierre Jalbert\u2019s<\/strong> music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPierre Jalbert writes music of considerable elegance, but not even that knowledge was enough to prepare me for the breathtaking beauty, lyricism and intricacy of the chamber works on this new disc from the Copland House in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>There are four pieces included here, and each of them creates a distinctive sound world without turning its back on traditional formal strategies \u2014 which is part of what makes the music so alluring. The Piano <em>Quartet<\/em> that gives the disc its title, for instance, is cast in a familiar four-movement format, yet the music shimmers with an otherworldly strangeness\u2026In <em>Trio No. 1<\/em>, Jalbert contrasts fierce, needling energy with a soulful conclusion steeped in Gregorian chant, and the disc concludes with the quintet <em>\u201cCrossings,\u201d<\/em> a zesty reverie rooted in the folk music of French Canadian culture\u2026\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/HzrB30aeQFp\">Read more here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Release! &#8220;Secret Alchemy&#8221; from Copland House, and Joshua Kosman of The San Francisco Chronicle talks about Pierre Jalbert\u2019s music. \u201cPierre Jalbert writes music of considerable elegance, but not even that knowledge was enough to prepare me for the breathtaking&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/2017\/03\/24\/jalbert-breathtaking-beauty-san-francisco-chronicle\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,9,25],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press","tag-copland-house","tag-jalbert","tag-recording"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SfChronicle-short-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}