“This necklace of fragments, transcriptions and recompositions is my little homage to the world’s greatest composer”, says John Woolrich of The Theatre Represents a Garden: Night, which received its first performance from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in 1991. The 15-minute piece expresses a longstanding fascination in Woolrich’s music with fragments and traces; it is scored for the same forces as a Mozartean orchestra. It weaves together snatches of arias from Barbarina and Susanna in Act IV of Le nozze di Figaro, unfinished sketches of chamber and woodwind pieces by Mozart, and a Busoni transcription. Traces of Mozart’s own textural proclivities (divided violas, horn pedals) find their way into Woolrich’s orchestration.