Emerging out of the time known as La Belle Époque’ the second vienesse school, Arnold Schoenberg and his two primary students, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, began to redesign music and move it away from a tonal system which had been rendered almost useless by the hyper-chromaticism of the period. The ’12 Tone’ system as it is known was born and refined by this group. Of the three composers Anton Webern’s music challenged all that had come before. His music, so unique and ‘koan’ like, often less than a minute long, sounded like nothing from the past and more like a transmission from the future. While not in any specific way attempting to imitate Webern this piece is a hommage of sorts to that remarkable composer, and that time when one age evolved into another.