fri 22 may, 18:00 hrs
American Highways #17: Desert Highway
The open road, the desert heat, the shimmering mirage in the distance, the mountains also often in the distance. The landscape has been stripped bare by nature of all irrelevant material, of all extraneous detail.
Man is an observer, but not a participant in the landscape. There is nothing for us to do, except pass through. The romance is sung of in their music: John Adams, Frederick Rzewski, George Antheil, Arlo Guthrie, Concrete Blonde, Henry Cowell, and Butterfly.
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