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New Works by Pierre Jalbert in Bennington and Philadelphia

Jul. 11, 2018

New Works by Pierre Jalbert in Bennington and Philadelphia

This summer is a busy one for Pierre Jalbert. On July 21, Jalbert’s Wind Dances for piano and woodwind quintet receives it premere performances at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference in Vermont. A repeat performance of the work takes place in Bennington on August 4. On July 22, musicians from the Network for New Music present the world premiere of Jalbert’s Light, Line, Shadow for seven players, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Jalbert describes this work:

"Light, Line, Shadow is a response to Edward Hopper’s iconic painting Road and Trees, a painting donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Daniel Dietrich II, and the first Hopper painting acquired by the museum. My piece is in three contrasting movements, each referring to and inspired by an aspect of Hopper’s painting.

The first movement, "Landscape in Motion", refers to the dynamic movement of the landscape when travelling in a car and looking at the landscape passing by in the window. Hopper loved to take road trips, experiencing America by car, and in one of his initial sketches for Road and Trees, there was a car in the painting. The first movement tries to capture that moving landscape as experienced in a car in motion. The second movement, "Brush Strokes", focuses on the darker forest in the painting, as the trees become denser and the technique of brush strokes creates deep layers. There is a spiritual aspect to Hopper’s paintings, a kind of isolation and emptied out space, and the third movement, "Open Road", dwells on that aspect of the painting before reprising material from the dynamic first movement.


Additional performances of Jalbert's music this summer include Street Antiphons at Chamber Music Northwest on July 27, In Terra at the Cabrillo Festival on August 12, and the Piano Quintet at La Jolla SummerFest on August 16.


Listen to Pierre Jalbert’s Piano Quintet (2017) here:


(Piano Quintet/Pierre Jalbert/Jupiter String Quartet/Bernadette Harvey, piano)


To learn more about Pierre Jalbert, please visit schott-music.com 

Pierre Jalbert
Wind Dances (2018)
For woodwind quintet and piano
21’

Light, Line, Shadow (2018)
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15’

Street Antiphons (2015)
for piano trio and clarinet
16’

In Terra (2016)
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11’

Piano Quintet (2017)
19’

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