Composed: 2011
Premiered: 2011, Princeton
Duration: 11 minutes

Entr’acte was written in 2011 after hearing the Brentano Quartet play Haydn’s Op. 77 No. 2 – with their spare and soulful shift to the D-flat Major trio in the minuet. It is structured like a minuet and trio, riffing on that classical form but taking it a little further. I love the way some music (like the minuets of Op. 77) suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolour transition.

Program note by the composer.