I am sitting in a wooden chair on the partly covered porch of a cabin at the historic Miller Farm that is an extension of Bend's High Mountain Desert Museum. I am wearing a pair of wireless headphones so that I can hear pianist Hunter Noack against the backdrop of a thunderstorm. Suddenly, there is a flash of lighting and a crack of thunder. Another flash of lighting followed immediately by thunder and then an onslaught of rain. As I listen to the music through the headphones, I try to remember exactly how many seconds exist between lighting and thunder to determine the storm's closeness. I think about leaving but note that no one else is leaving, so I focus on the music and reflect on a concert in a landscape as a combination of stormy weather, the music coming through the headphones and the landscape of this nineteenth-century farm at the edge of the Cascade Range. I also consider how different the experience at the Miller Farm is from hearing Hunter Noack play on Oregon's State Capital Mall in Salem on a quiet summer evening. On that evening, I walked around and listened to the music through the headphones as I contemplated the green landscape of the mall, the rows of cherry trees and the bronze golden-leaf statue of Oregon's pioneer on top of the Capital building. Contemplating both experiences, I reflect on the communities of people across Oregon who have attended Hunter Noack's IN A LANDSCAPE concert since 2016 in such diverse places as Crater Lake, Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Columbia Gorge, Smith Rock State Park and the farm home of Oregon's legendary writer Ken Kesey. I realize my experience of the landscapes of the Miller Farm and the Capital Mall will now be firmly identified with the sounds of a piano (Figure 10 ).

Bend, Sunriver and the Cascades: From Timber to Creative City

Hunter Noack's life might be described metaphorically as taking place in a landscape of central Oregon combined with the landscape of classical music. Born in 1989, he was raised in Sunriver.