What begins as a lineup of manipulated individual tubes, at times as if escaped from a pipe organ, climaxes in the arrangement and rearrangement of its parts now as starbursts, then as galloping horses, and again into male and female stick figures that tell of the Pulcinella and Pimpinella characters in the music's commedia dell'arte scenario.

WSJ: A Puppeteer's 'Rite' of Passage | Basil Twist | By Robert Greskovic