Written in 2016, this six-minute piece for Pierrot Ensemble echoes these inspiring lines from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road".
Forever alive, forever forward, _ _Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied, _ _Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men, _ _They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go, _ _But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
Beginning with lyrical and expressive lines, the music progresses through a series of revelations and expansions, arriving at an exuberant ending.
