Asked to write about his new work for the evening's program notes, Rihm wrote, "A piece of art should always speak for itself. There is nothing to 'explain.'"

"However," he added,

one can perceive.... There is no limit to the freedom of hearing (unless, of course, your neighbor chooses to cough too much). Sometimes there emerges something absolutely amazing out of a couple of harmless intervals of thirds. Everything is in a state of flux, motion engenders motion. Contrasts spring up all of a sudden, they lead to conflicts, struggle, decisions, solutions, new conflicts, episodes, replies.... I am fond of forms which develop freely—flux-like forms, form-processes reminiscent of those found in Nature.

The program will be repeated on March 11, 12, and 15.