Open Night

"Open Night" is a 17-minute sextet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (or, as enthusiasts of contemporary music will quickly note, ?Pierrot? ensemble plus percussion, referring to Schoenberg?s quirky "Pierrot Lunaire" of 1912). In "Open Night" there are elements of several types of conventional musical forms ? the return of a sonata, the lyricism of a nocturne, the capricious elements of a scherzo. On the programmatic side, there are the brooding qualities of solitude, the static