Divertimento is an arrangement by Viatka Nushev of Sextuor. Strangely enough, I had original/y considered calling my sextet 'Divertimento': commissioned by Éric Le Sage and Paul Meyer, and composed for a 1998 New Year 's Concert at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, it is a happy, cheerful piece, notwithstanding a suspended melancholy moment in the slow movement.

The first movement, Dynamique, is a set of variations packed with rhythmic processes inherited from American repetitive music. Noctu...