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...Birdsong in a Time of Silence, by Steven Lovatt, Particular Books, RRP£12.99, 160 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
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...The drummer and founder of the influential Spontaneous Music Ensemble, John Stevens, heard the resulting soundtrack, and asked Parker to join his experiments in free jazz....
...Instead he uses the orchestra’s full colour to create a dissonant riot of birdsong. It is subtle, luminous music, to which the performers did full justice....
...Sciarrino’s Paganini-inspired Capricci, consisting almost entirely of harmonics, profited most from her refinement: she made them sound like oriental birdsong....
...Bathed in spring sunshine and alive with raucous birdsong, the village glows with a sense of neighbourly pride....
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