From Moon for the Misbegotten at McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, N.J.), 2006. Directed by Gary Griffin.

“This is an old Irish tune that we were trying to remember. It’s written for three violins and piano.” —Andre Pluess

String Sample, Part 2: "Couples Dance"

From Pericles, by Shakespeare, at the Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, D.C.), 2004, and the Goodman Theatre (Chicago), 2005. Directed by Mary Zimmerman.

“When we got to rehearsal, the choreographer had already finished this dance, though we hadn’t written the piece yet! So we had to build the piece around an existing structure of counts and movement patterns—we’d never tried that before. This was scored for piano, cello, two violins and flute.” —Andre Pluess