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...A tangle of twisted metal and broken concrete, it had the air of a ruined abbey — trembling shafts of sunlight, aisles of greenery, birdsong in a forest hush....
...Robert Capa’s images from the Spanish civil war and the D-Day landings are some of the best-known photographs ever taken....
...He got everyone in the audience to download a track of birdsong and conducted all of us playing it on our phones, then went into his symphonic piece. It was just beautiful.”...
...Robert Frost’s proposition that “fences make good neighbours”, in his 1914 poem “Mending Wall”, was tested in unprecedented ways in March 2020 when Britain was locked down and the entire country was obliged...
...Apart from the birdsong, I’m disturbed only by the occasional rustling of animals in last autumn’s leaves. I quickly lose track of time as an empty state of contentment washes over me....
...Citrus trees heavy with fruit and blooming bougainvillea cascade along the walls, while a soundtrack of birdsong and water fountains plays in the background....
...Andres Roberts has little doubt....
...He got everyone in the audience to download a track of birdsong and conducted all of us playing it on our phones, then went into his symphonic piece. It was just beautiful....
...In my case, between 5am and 7am, propped up on pillows, ideally listening to birdsong. Blow, it seems, writes at a more civilised hour....
...We sat still, listening to birdsong and the whoop and chatter of monkeys away to the east. And then, a squeal from my four-year-old son: “Tiger!”....
...Or you can just sit and enjoy the birdsong from one of the many fragrant terraces....
...“This is about upgrading your ears,” Mr Roberts says. So does the technology work?...
...Robert Winder has a thing about the year 1290. His groundbreaking 2004 book on immigration to Britain, Bloody Foreigners, has a harrowing centrepiece, Edward I’s expulsion of the Jews....
...Birdsong, in contrast, seems strangely amplified. This garden, of which Keijsers is part owner, is actually three gardens in one....
...Some say they find birdsong soothing; I found tranquillity in turning down the volume. robert.shrimsley@ft.com; Twitter: @robertshrimsley ....
...Other precious moments were spent in the early evening, dozing on the lawn under the battlements amid a chorus of birdsong. But then, a castle at any time of day is a pretty special thing....
...The story opens in the 1980s and concerns Robert Hendricks, a psychiatrist in his sixties....
...Inside it, we’re drawn into the aural chaos of an invisible war: anguished cries of people and animals mingle with a call to prayer and, unexpectedly, birdsong, while an anonymous Middle Eastern landscape...
...We hike through forest loud with birdsong, stopping to cool off in waterfalls and visit communities so remote, we are told that we are the first foreigners to have arrived for 12 months....
...If Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald were to co-author a book with John Burnside and Adam Foulds, it might end up something like At Hawthorn Time. Harrison’s protagonists are a study in contrasts....
...Far from the tourist-jammed roads, the silence is broken only by birdsong....
...So if people would rather have recordings of birdsong than the real thing, then to hell with the forests. You could not have a clearer statement of what is called the anthropocentric approach....
...The Sonic Boom: How sound transforms the way we think, feel, and buy Joel Beckerman with Tyler Gray, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 In 2005, a film editor’s assistant named Robert Ryang made a trailer for...
...A Love Unsung, the new work by the Dutch composer Robert Zuidam, is just what you might expect at Rotterdam’s Opera Days, which specialises in defying expectations....
...I remember the thrill of the performance rather than the steps themselves but YouTube is there to refresh the memories: young, lusty, effortlessly classical, steps pouring from his body as naturally as birdsong...
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