Word: birdsongs
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...transport, but the panniers hanging from the backs of those Honda Dreams are still made of woven bamboo. And as you stroll through the outskirts of town in the late afternoon, the only sounds you hear besides the 5:15 p.m. call to prayer at the mosque are birdsong...
Messiaen, who began collecting birdsong when he was 15, dedicated the music to “the blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales, orioles, robins, warblers, and all the birds of our forests.” The birds awake in stages, beginning with Midnight, through the Dawn Chorus and ending at Noon. The music begins with the lone nightingale represented by a succession of octaves on the solo piano. A duet of nightingales soon follows. The orchestra does not play a large role in the piece, and when it does enter the forest of birds it serves as an indicator of the timbre...
DIED. ROBERT J. LURTSEMA, 68, host of classical-music radio show Morning pro musica, known for his sonorous voice and his practice of playing a recording of a birdsong at the opening of his show; of lung disease...