Whitman’s epic “Song of the Open Road” is an inspiring metaphor encouraging us to find and explore our own paths, free of anchors or artificial boundaries. Dorff uses 5 brief passages from the poem as movement titles, setting the stage for a suite of sometimes-edgy soliloquies in which the music (and the flutist) explores these open roads.

• Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road
• However calm these waters we must not anchor here
• Strong and content I travel the open road
• I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines
• Will you travel with me?