{"id":2071,"date":"2018-07-23T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T23:03:07","slug":"jalbert-light-line-shadow-network-for-new-music-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/site\/jalbert-light-line-shadow-network-for-new-music-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Jalbert’s Light, Line, Shadow “serious and crushingly beautiful” at Philadelphia Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art Museum’s Hopper painting inspires new Pierre Jalbert score<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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by Peter Dobrin<\/b><\/a>, Classical Music Critic<\/div>\n
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Pierre Jalbert<\/a> had the right idea. On Sunday afternoon in a gallery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a>, players from the Network for New Music unveiled his Light, Line, Shadow<\/em>. The 15-minute piece, for seven players and led by Jan Krzywicki, had the benefit of having its prompt, Edward Hopper\u2019s Road and Trees<\/em>, hanging right there. Pictures at an Exhibition<\/em> isn\u2019t the enduring success it is because of what it tells you about the pictures that inspired it, and Jalbert\u2019s piece works independently from the Hopper because it is, in itself, a small gem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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The rehearsal sounds carried through the galleries, and a few minutes later, as Jalbert\u2019s mysterious opening was getting a run-through, it brought mood and meaning to the blue-gray angular architecture of Charles Sheeler\u2019s Neighbors<\/em>.But if humans are highly suggestible to making connections, Jalbert\u2019s connotations were hardly random. His work strikes a smart balance: Specific references are there to be found, but he does nothing to shackle the listener\u2019s imagination. I didn\u2019t stay for the post-performance talk and avoided reading the program notes, and yet his piece spoke quite well for itself.One of the reasons Jalbert and Hopper go together so nicely is that this late (1962) work by the American artist is so oddly modern; it is a long way from the 1942 oil Nighthawks<\/em>, the sleek eavesdrop on a nighttime diner that has become a great American meme.Jalbert\u2019s language is modern, too, but highly genial.The Houston-based composer\u00a0\u2014 perhaps familiar to some for his time years ago as a University of Pennsylvania doctoral student\u00a0\u2014 organized his work in three movements. Hopper aimed to capture something of a moving car passing the landscape, and Jalbert plays beautifully with this idea\u00a0\u2014 motion, motion blurred, motion suspended, motion resumed. The opening movement floats and then rushes forth; the second movement is haunted by cello harmonics, here played eerily by John Koen.Jalbert weaves together a lot of ideas in the third movement\u00a0\u2014 a Stravinsky clarinet lick played here by Bob Butryn, Edward Schultz\u2019s unusually quiet piccolo solo that whispered into your ear like a worried friend. Hopper\u2019s canvas is subdued and melancholy, at least in the relatively dim light of the Dorrance gallery. The music wallows for a while, the way the grim second movement of Ravel\u2019s Gaspard de la nuit<\/em> does.<\/p>\n

This last movement of Light, Line, Shadow,\u00a0<\/em>called \u201cOpen Road,\u201d is serious and crushingly beautiful, and it pierces beneath the surface of the painting. It sums up a journey, but sends you on your way with something\u00a0\u2014 a mood, the intimation perhaps of something lurking beyond those trees\u00a0\u2014 that you didn\u2019t have on your way there.<\/p>\n

Light, Line, Shadow<\/em> will be repeated Oct. 14 by Network for New Music. www.networkfornewmusic.org.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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