Born
1982

Instrumentation
Strings

Work Composed
2011

World Premiere
First performed by the Brentano Quartet at Princeton University, April 2011

Commissioned
String Orchestra version commissioned by A Far Cry, July 2014

Duration
12 minutes

Program Notes
Written by composer

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, technicolor transition.