“Be” is a work that explores the evolution and interaction of two main motific ideas. Programmatically, those two motives loosely represent two emotional components: thinking and feeling. Throughout the work, these ideas are presented both separately and together, propelling the piece forward. The work is organized into three large sections: The first is a slow, intimate soundscape characterized by heterophonic and soloistic textures. The second is a contrasting, driving, and bombastic section that continues to build and transform as it grows. The final section takes on a static character with sustained, lightly pulsed harmonics in the strings, hushed winds, and flickers of harp. The work has a cyclical form in that it begins and ends with a similar character in a similar register.