The Lost Birds (An Extinction Elegy)

Description

The Lost Birds is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and elegaic, it's a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It's a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it's also a warning about our own tenuous existence on the planet: that the fate that befell those once soaring flocks foreshadows our own extinction.

Contents:
• Flocks a Mile Wide
• The Saddest Noise (Text adapted from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• Bird Raptures (Text adapted from a poem by Christina Rossetti)
• A Hundred Thousand Birds (Text adapted from a poem by Christina Rossetti)
• Wild Swans (Text adapted from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Intermezzo
• Thus in the Winter (Text adapted from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• There Will Come Soft Rains (Text adapted from a poem by Sara Teasdale)
• All That Could Never Be Said (Text adapted from a poem by Sara Teasdale)
• I Shall Not See the Shadows (Text adapted from poems by Christina Rossetti & Emily Dickinson)
• In the End (Text adapted from a poem by Sara Teasdale)
• Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Text adapted from a poem by Emily Dickinson)