Quick Notes from a Road Trip West: Music to My Ears

While filling up our car with gas today in Spokane, I noticed that a fairly battered white pick-up had parked near me. A man dressed in work clothes got out and went into the store, leaving the windows open and the radio on. What a surprise to hear the music of strings and woodwinds floating out that window...obviously a classical-style chamber work of some kind. When he came out I resisted the temptation to congratulate him on his musical taste; how condescending that would have sounded!