At the start of life, all doors are flung open wide. Every future is possible, every choice presents itself. So begins Legacies, naïve, jittery, excited, imbued with a sense of wonder and expectation.

Later in life there is more time to reflect inwardly upon the choices made, and things happen more deliberately; this introspection marks the middle slower section of the work. This is the core of the composition, its emotional center, representing the desire to remain where one is in life, vers...