{"id":66,"date":"2011-11-11T04:54:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/?p=66"},"modified":"2013-06-21T05:38:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T05:38:36","slug":"review-jalberts-visual-abstracts-possesses-interesting-timbres-and-a-sense-of-cohesion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/2011\/11\/11\/review-jalberts-visual-abstracts-possesses-interesting-timbres-and-a-sense-of-cohesion\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Jalbert&#8217;s &#8220;Visual Abstracts&#8221; possesses interesting timbres and a sense of cohesion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An American Perspective&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0     October 22, 2011<br \/>\nContemporary Directions Ensemble\/Christopher James Lee<br \/>\nUniversity of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the concert was&#8230;no less potent, than the first. It began with Visual Abstract (2002), by Pierre Jalbert, a former professor of mine at Rice University&#8230;.One of the most wonderful aspects of this piece, for me, was Mr. Jalbert\u2019s use of percussion \u2013 it was always used to color another idea present in the ensemble. Not only did interesting timbres result from this strategy, but the percussion also felt like it was more integrated into the musical environment than if it had just been an independent entity. Admirably, this aspect of the piece lent the group\u2019s sound a sense of cohesion even when the music was webbed with contrapuntal ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Schumann, <em>Sequenza21.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For complete review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequenza21.com\/2011\/10\/a-red-hot-start-to-michigans-new-music-season\/#more-6523\">click here<\/a>.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An American Perspective&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 October 22, 2011 Contemporary Directions Ensemble\/Christopher James Lee University of Michigan The second half of the concert was&#8230;no less potent, than the first. It began with Visual Abstract (2002), by Pierre Jalbert, a former professor of mine&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/2011\/11\/11\/review-jalberts-visual-abstracts-possesses-interesting-timbres-and-a-sense-of-cohesion\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}