for Wind Ensemble

Part I

(5:57) ... only to stop for a teardrop, ... a dark storm raging ...

Part II

(8:06) ... sharing and letting go, but never really letting go, ... resisting explanation, relentlessly seeking ...

Part III

(8:18) ... tears drop, poetic and proud, ... returning forever home, to the ocean ...

TEARDROP is an impressionistic view of life’s journey, using water as a metaphor. From a human teardrop to a raindrop falling from the sky, from rippling river rapids to a violent storm, from the majesty of crashing waves to the vast unknown of the great oceans, I see a parallel for the human experience in each of these images.