Program Note:

This piece is about the composers visit to Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. A loose narrative is as follows:

-Visions and premonitions of the coming day.
-Life teems with rhythm under the rising sun.
-Bucking young stallions are ready to ride.
-Whistling on the trail under tall hoodoos and red arches.
-The pack mule’s discourse.
-Close of day brings hazy horizons.
-The grandness of the Grand Staircase–Escalante.