Saturday, November 26, 2011

November 26 - Under Uncertain Skies


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.