“Endings” is a Woodwind Quintet piece I started writing in April of 2013. Little did I know that in a month Oma Jo would past from this world. I was just finishing up a very unpleasant semester at the University of Missouri St. Louis. The one bright spot in that semester was the composition seminar I took with Dr. Harbach. This was one of the pieces that I worked on with her. It seemed to pour bad news on me that semester. I changed my major for the second time and then Oma Jo passed on. Music was part of my way of dealing with the stress. Enjoy “Endings.”