No Time Toulouse, preparing for the Thanksgiving trip and tripping down la freeway to Diablo Valley
College, where many of the faithful Theoreticians have faithfully and thankfully gathered for la penultimate challenge: Quiz 14, Analysis, with excerpts drawn from Philip Glass and Sting, plus five types of seventh-chords in three keys. The understanding group allows for a timely leave-taking thereafter, stopping for supplies, but rendezvous'ing with Harriet in record time, up I-505 and 5 in the gloom, until the light glimmers for an instant at
Shasta Dam Road, the
Gates of the
Mountains, and that most unimaginatively nomenclatured
Gray
Cliffs. Dark once more by Dunsmuir, with drizzle -- clearing, reassuredly predicably enough, in the high, dry valleys north of Weed. Upsy-downsy (Anderson Grade, Klamath River), eventularly overzee Sikiyou Summit (all of 4310 feet... highest point on I-5), down in treacherous fog, touch-and-go through the Bear and Rogue Valleys, the seesaw of Sexton Mountain Pass, Sunny Valley (where?), Smith Hill Summit, Wolf Creek, Stage Hill Pass, Glendale, Canyon Creek Summit, and the town beyond for petrol. At this point, we're feeling like Roseberg will be a good end of the day, but -- lo -- the stratus doth clear, for starry skies beyond, so we push all the way to Troutdale, fishing for compliments and enjoying a late meal before
his-and-hers internet access and away into that good night.
As we drift off, recall the music that sustained us on the way, including...
Sergei Prokofiev...
Piano Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 1 ("Classical")
Violin Concerto No. 1
The Love for Three Oranges
Symphony No. 3
Lt. Kije
Peter and the Wolf
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Eddie Cantor...
Merrie Melodies (Merrily We Roll Along)
Ferde Grofe...
Grand Canyon Suite
Arthur Honegger...
Le Roi David
Pacific 231
Jeanne d'Arc
Symphony No. 2 for Strings and Trumpet
Symphony No. 3 ("Symphonie Liturgique")
Darius Milhaud...
La Creation du Monde
Cliff Friend...
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (Looney Tunes)
Bessie Smith...
Lost Yer Head Blues
Peter Warlock...
Capriol Suite
Paul Hindemith...
Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto
Ernesto Lecuona...
Say Si Si
Carl Orff...
Carmina Burana
William Grant Still...
Afro-American Symphony
Virgil Thomson...
The Mother of Us All
Sydney Bechet...
Blue Horizon
Henry Cowell...
The Tides of Manaunaun
Aeolian Harp
Piano Piece: Paris 1924
The Banshee
The Tiger
and Wayan Limbak...
Ketjak (Monkey Dance)
