Look Both Ways - for wind quintet. Recorded in November 2022 by Uptown Winds. Premiered in Kilbourn Hall Look Both Ways is a restless piece. Tension is palpable in each moment, the air’s teeth gnashing, and the brief moments of peace are undercut before the repose may set in. And yet, the music’s restlessness is not of the dire variety, like that of a prisoner awaiting their execution, nor does it resemble the trivial anxiety of a history student when their teacher announces a pop-quiz. Instead, the music should always be ready to burst in the way restless child, walking home from school, anxiously awaits the moment when they may play with their favorite toy. The spirit of play is omnipresent in the piece—the motives meander as the winds explore various trains of thought, constructing different realities of pitch, rhythm, and articulation from the same motivic building blocks. Listeners and performers alike would do well to keep this spirit of play in the forefront of their minds.