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Jennifer Jolley: Lilac Tears

from Project Encore, Vol. 1 by Timothy McAllister and Liz Ames

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Jennifer Jolley is a composer, blogger, and professor person. She is also a cat lover and part-time creative opera producer. Jennifer’s work draws toward subjects that are political and even provocative. Her collaboration with librettist Kendall A, Prisoner of Conscience, has been described as “the ideal soundtrack and perhaps balm for our current ‘toxic...times’” by Frank J. Oteri of New Music Box. Her piece, Blue Glacier Decoy, written as a musical response to the Olympic National Park, depicts the Pacific Northwest’s melting glaciers. Her partnership with writer Scott Woods, You Are Not Alone, evokes the fallout of the #MeToo Movement. Jennifer’s works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles worldwide. She is now an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at CUNY Lehman College, and has been a composition faculty member at Interlochen Arts Camp since 2015.
When Tim McAllister asked me to write him and his piano partner, Liz Ames, a piece for their ongoing “Project Encore,” I was delighted. The opportunity to write for one of the greatest saxophonists of all time is a great honor, if also a joyful challenge. How does one write an encore for a top performer who always plays a brilliant concert? As I began to sketch my first attempts at the commission, I kept thinking about how similarly-gifted instrumentalists concluded a performance. Suddenly I thought of a perfect analog: Prince’s 2004 performance of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at Harrison’s posthumous induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Harrison’s song is a meditative piece written for his band, The Beatles. It is often tied to a disharmonious period in the band’s tenure and the spiritual ambivalence of its author. In form, it is a short twentieth-century pop music chaconne that operates as a vehicle for dazzling instrumental lines in its final third. On the night of the performance, Prince stood at the side of an all-star band that included Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne, and Steve Winwood. When The Purple One (uncharacteristically dressed in red under his black morning suit) emerged for the final third, he proceeded to eclipse his collaborators. Prince’s performance cemented his status as one of music’s greatest guitarists and acted as an ecstatic apotheosis that remedied the doubt detected in Harrison’s earlier verses.

Lilac Tears (2022) is my engagement of this phenomenal solo with the ambition to showcase Tim’s skillful playing and emotional depths that his playing inspires. It is an homage to the almost alchemical experience of great instrumentalists and a testament to my esteem for Tim in the comparison.
-Jennifer Jolley


Publisher: Jennifer Jolley (BMI).

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from Project Encore, Vol. 1, released August 24, 2022

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Timothy McAllister is one of today’s most celebrated wind soloists, a member of the renowned PRISM Quartet, and a champion of contemporary music credited with almost 50 recordings and over 200 premieres of new compositions by eminent and emerging composers worldwide. McAllister has appeared with more than 40 of the world’s top orchestras and ensembles in over 20 countries. ... more

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