The title suggests a character that is rough and outside the mainstream, unsheltered and ready to face the forces of nature head-on.This character is captured in music featuring insistent melodic figures articulated in relentlesssixteenth-notes. One tempo pervades the entire 11-minute work: “not fast, but always with a feeling of surging forward.” 2+Picc.2.3+BCl+EbCl+Eb Clto Cl: SATB Saxes: 2+ BbPicc+2 Flg.4.3.2 Euph.2: Bass: Timp.Perc(4): Pno.Hp