Up early with Harriet, Tisha, and Claire --
we make our goodbyes,
down through
Oregon on Route 11 to
Pendleton,
then 80 from the long transit down the Columbia, back through Gilliam
(fraught with windmills
and
railroads past
Arlington,
Blalock
and
Philippi
Canyons),
Sherman (the cliffy passage from the John
Day
to
Deschutes
Rivers),
Wasco
(The
Dalles,
Celilo,
and
views of Mt. Hood
on the cusp of
arid
and
humid),
Hood
River
(with
its
spectacular
snow-speckled
slopes), and
Multnomah (Bonneville Dam,
the
Falls,
and environs). Following this, the even longer journey southward on 5, through the
Willamette and
Umpqua Valleys
(the latter including Roseburg
and
Myrtle
Creek), the roller-coaster of Canyon Creek / Glendale / Stage Coach / Wolf Creek / Smith Hill / Sunny Valley /
Sexton Mountain / Hugo /
Grants
Pass / Rogue River / Medford / Ashland / Siskiyou Summit / Yreka / Weed / Shasta City / Dunsmuir / Redding, beyond which,
the fog grows thick before a second-to-final stop at Corning, and thence -- with heightened senses throughout -- home.
The sustaining playlist is:
Aaron Copland...
Music for the Theatre
El Salon Mexico
Billy the Kid
Danzon Cubano
Fanfare for the Common Man
Rodeo
Appalachian Spring
Clarinet Concerto
John McPhee...
Balinese Ceremonial Music
Kurt Weill...
Violin (Weiolin?) Concerto
Berlin Requiem
The Threepenny Opera
Happy End
The Seven Deadly Sins
Louis Armstrong...
Big Butter and Egg Man
Hotter Than That
Potato Head Blues
Struttin' with Some Barbecue
Willie the Weeper
Weather Bird
Sweethearts on Parade
Frederick Loewe...
My Fair Lady
Harry Partch...
Eleven Intrusions
Barstow
And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma
US Highball
Joaquin Rodrigo...
Concierto de Aranjuez
Concierto Andaluz
Concerto Madrigal
Richard Rodgers...
The King and I
William Walton...
Five Bagatelles for Guitar and Orchestra
Meredith Willson...
The Music Man
Joe Garland...
In the Mood
Aram Khachaturian...
Gayane
Dmitri Kabalevsky...
The Comedians
Glenn Miller...
American Patrol
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
Moonlight Serenade
Wham
Harold Arlen...
I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues
The Wizard of Oz
... Oh, yes, also listen to Joowan Kim's Great Integration plus a new album, and music of Matthew Owens, plus new recordings...
Mark Alburger...
Suite ("Sol[ar]")
Duo Sonata No. 1
Sinfonietta
An American Requiem
Song of Solomon
John John John
Ave Maris Stella
All the BBC Sound Files
Acid Loops
Psalms, Book 3
The Cop and the Anthem
The latter two works-in-progress, Harriet finding favor with the Garishtone Orchestra.
