"Black Ball Counts Double (2001)" genre: Contemporary
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	When the composer was 7 years of age, his maternal grandmother presented him with a bagatelle game called Wing Shot. The object of the pinball-like game was to launch small marbles using a spring-loaded plunger, causing them to land in semicircular cups with associated point values. Across the bottom of the game was inscribed the phrase "Black Ball Counts Double." The title and concept of this single-movement work for string quartet were suggested by the pleasant memories of the perpetually flying marbles and the almost mystical significance of the single black ball.

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