Graduation season causes a variety of emotions that musiccan help to express. Some graduates will be elated, happy to escape the confines of education. Others will feel saddened by or afraid of the prospect of leaving their friends and family. Others will simply be relieved they made it through. Their families, too, will have an array of feelings, from pride to worry and even melancholy. Almost everyone connected to a graduation will experience a mixture of these feelings, sometimes changing with remarkable speed.