Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain

Today's second guest blogger is Catherine Roberts.

One of the (seriously numerous) things I love about Quartz Mountain is that as soon as camp starts, we are inundated with music. It’s everywhere: from the halls of the lodge during sectionals to the evening performances by faculty and students.

Fortunately, we’re provided with handy programs letting us know which pieces we hear during concerts. A few songs we’ve encountered this week, however, have been more incidental. In today’s post, we’ll revisit some of those fleeting moments of the past week and a half with this short playlist of songs that didn’t show up on any programs and whose titles were never mentioned, but that helped provide a soundtrack to OSAI 2012. Now you, too, can relive these moments in the privacy of your own home.

1. “That first song from last year’s video yearbook”

Race You, by Elizabeth & The Catapult

Last year’s yearbook producer did a great job picking music to back up all the fantastic photos from OSAI 2011. So much so that after seeing the film three times through (once during counselor orientation, once at the faculty welcome dinner, and once with the students on the first day of camp), I finally remembered enough of the lyrics to the first song to look it up on iTunes. Now you can too! It’s available on iTunes for $0.99.

2. “Those songs they played during Paul Austin’s performance”

            Wings of a Dove, by Ferlin Huskey 

            Wayfaring Stranger, performed by the Wayfaring Strangers

            He’s Always There, artist unknown

For you Johnny Cash and Alison Krauss fans who perked up when this trio of songs played during Paul Austin and Rilla Askew’s reading of her piece “Strange Business,” we’ve done our best to provide title and artist information. The first two, “Wings of a Dove” and “Wayfaring Stranger” are both available on iTunes for $0.99. The third song is, as far as I could tell, a fairly obscure gospel song. This one you probably won’t be able to find on iTunes. But let us know if you want the track; we have a copy.

3. “That one that Jeff Grogan used to teach us to conduct”

            Cadillac of the Skies, composed by John Williams

We only got to hear a short snippet of this song during conductor Jeff Grogan’s faculty presentation, but the full version has even more to offer. It is also on iTunes for $0.99, so get a copy and practice those moves!