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This movement represents the long ride home from the Owens Valley, and the schemes Mulholland and Eaton wove together to make the Owens Valley water their own for Los Angeles some 233 miles south. It all seemed utterly impossible. However, impossible was a concept neither Mulholland, nor Eaton paid much attention.
Mulholland focused on the engineering requirements, astonished to conclude that gravity alone might move the water from the high elevations of the Owens Valley to the near sea level of Los Angeles. There was also the civic requirements, the politics, federal approvals, city boosters, and the extraordinary sums of money required to fund what would be fourth largest engineering project in American History. Eaton imagined the massive patchwork of water rights along the 233 mile long journey that must be secured. Only an entrepreneurial mind like Eaton’s, a former Water Department Superintendent himself, and the former Los Angeles Mayor, would have the engineering, creativity, and business mind to dream and believe it was all actually achievable. And to complicate things more, Mulholland, friends of Eaton for over 25 years, could never have imagined that the plans they crafted together to move the Owens water to Los Angeles were not what they appeared. Eaton had double crossed his friend to put himself in a position to be enriched at the expense of the City of Los Angeles, and the cost of a lifelong friendship. This was the end to a friendship, and the beginning of a rivalry that lasted over the next 25 years with consequences that no one could have imaged. These men are two of Los Angeles's most influential citizens, they were The Rainmakers. RECORDING
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2019 DURATION 5 min, 14 seconds INSTRUMENTATION 2 Flutes 2 Oboes 2 Clarinets in B-flat 1 Bass Clarinet 2 Bassoons 2Horns in F 2 Trumpets in Bflat 2 Trombones 1 Bass Trombone 2 Tuba Timpani Percussion Harp Strings |
