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Thread #163922 Message #3916263
Posted By: Jack Campin
10-Apr-18 - 05:03 AM
Thread Name: Why don't more composers use birdsong?
Subject: RE: Why don't more composers use birdsong?
The Finnish composer is Einojuhani Rautavaara, in his "Cantus Arcticus" concerto for recorded birds and orchestra. I've never heard it - after seeing my cats go completely berserk the one time I put a birdsong CD on ("WHERE'S LUNCH HIDING?") I never tried anything like that again.
Whalesong: there is a lovely duet for tuba and recorded whale by a Canadian woman composer whose name I forget, titled "Beneath the Horizon".