Premiered by Matthew Quayle, December 2002, NYU. 6’.
This piece was written after a dry period of about 9 months in which I hardly wrote a note. To ease back into things, I wanted to write a piano piece that was compositionally disciplined (the piece only uses a few motives, and the key areas are carefully planned) but emotionally carefree (when writing it I was constantly reminded of the theme from the Peanuts cartoons!). Like the toccatas of Schumann and Prokofiev, this is a virtuosic perpetual motion étude.