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Network for New Music premiered Jalbert’s Light, Line, Shadow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Philadelphia Inquirer said it “strikes a smart balance: Specific references are there to be found, but he does nothing to shackle the listener’s imagination….  his piece spoke quite well for itself,” calling the last movement “serious and crushingly beautiful…it sums up a journey, but sends you on your way with something — a mood, the intimation perhaps of something lurking beyond those trees — that you didn’t have on your way there.”

Composer Pierre Jalbert’s Light, Line, Shadow sat down to talk to WRTI about his upcoming premiere at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Written for Network for New Music and written in response to Edward Hopper’s oil painting, Road and Trees, it explores a range of moods and emotions, using flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, doublebass, and percussion.