Listening Guide
Part 3
The Works
Sowerby
Prairie
Cecil Burleigh
Four Rocky Mountain Sketches
At Sunset
The Rapids
The Avalanche
Up The Canyon
Ward
A Western Set – From The Opera Lady Kate
Celebration Overture
Prairie Romance
Hootenanny
McDonald
Symphony No. 1 – Sante Fe Trail
McKay
Harbor Narrative
Sea Horizon
En Route
Voice Of The City
Chanty
Men and Machines
Gulls
Waterfront March
Outward Bound
Into The Distance
Waldrop
Songs Of The Southwest
Nights can be long in Texas
wider than a mare can cross.
Sometimes they never end, it seems,
till the great red thought bleeds blue.
Nights can be long in Texas.
The pinto knows his rider’s weight,
can stare a void longer.
The turning season dips green tint,
repeater rifle sunshine zeros in
as targets faint:
Horizon is defined by what it ain’t.
Mount-and-rider zigzag like a drop
of rain down a windowpane, and the sky
is made of corrugated tin on top.
Hoofs trot closer; I spur my horse
to meet the mirror of my youth, golden
with marigold, and tarnish of tumbleweed,
riding hard on a pony of painted wood.
The larger the space the slower the time.
Shadows dial day around spindles,
leaf by age, sheen after shine.
Here’s a land without beginning,
Fossils cozy among rocks,
And the mockingbird scissors
its cunning cry.
Loaded, this land gets high.
I once loved a body in such a pitch
look was touch, which was which?
Who separates the sky, dark from light?
Where day begins ends night
Nights can be long in Texas.
Andrew Oerke
Denler
Portraits Of Colorado – An American Symphony No. 1
Rocky Mountain Odyssey
The Sangre De Cristos
A Walk In The White Forest
Where Wild Horses Run
The Dance
Ranch In The Highlands
Sunset Over Longs Peak
Moment At Dawn
The Columbine’s Tribute
Mountain Odyssey, reprise with finale