for Wind Band (Grade 4).
To Be Free chronicles an emotional transformation. Originally, the piece
was written after I admitted romantic feelings to a friend but it means so
much more than that. I learned to allow myself to feel my emotions fully
through writing this music. Human relationships with emotions are unique and
much like flowers; that is, we start closed off (like a bud) but then blossom
and become receptive to our emotional "world." Thus, we allow our emotions..."to
be free."