etcetera magazine June 2021

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nature

A Nightingale pours forth his liquid song. One of the most evocative sounds in Nature

‘Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti’ is a humorous performance piece often sang as part of a concert encore Sergei Prokofiev, in an unusually relaxed pose, in about 1920, 15 years before he wrote "Peter and the Wolf"

A Nightingale pours forth his liquid song. One of the most evocative sounds in Nature.

A European Skylark prepares to soar aloft to sing his love-song

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Camille Saint-Saens, with his beloved dog Dalila. He wrote the opera "Samson and Delilah" in 1877, whence the name of the dog (Dalila is French for Delilah)


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