Night Music, composed in 2012 and premiered by pianist David Fung, is bookended by a sense of stillness and quiet, inspired by the Maine woods at night and by the dark, mysterious moods of David Lynch’s film and television work.

The central sections interrupt that stillness with an off-kilter, lilting dance, suggesting something more mischievous and unstable beneath the surface. The movement invites the listener into a moonlit, slightly uncanny forest: peaceful, playful, and not entirely safe.

Night Music is the second movement from Three Movements for Piano, but may also be performed separately as an individual piece.

—SC