Though perhaps not beautiful in any traditional sense, they are strangely urgent and compelling. Other calls are long, melancholy, bell-like tolls that reverberate ventriloquially. The sounds produced by these birds are haunting cries, ranging from weak peeps and mews to caws, buglings, trumpetings, snaps, hisses, raps, and even clatterings that sound like bursts from a machine gun. They are a prototype of the continual inventiveness found in growing natural things. These most beautiful of all birds occur in over 40 species and display in their varied forms all the extravagant creativeness of nature. "The title, Birds of Paradise, is used in a figurative sense. That other world of strange sounds, not man-made, the true primeval music, is both the subject matter and the poetical idea of the piece: the rustlings, the murmurings, the sudden silences, the sustained shrill excitement of vociferous bird calls, their merriment, and their mourning the simplicity and the purity of the single voice, and the incalculable random complexity, the cacophony of the total aural impression, a veritable 'cauldron of sound.' In the runic repetitious incantations of birds, seemingly always the same, but in fact always different, some sense of the meaning of timelessness can be felt. He has written of it: :"The musical ideas on which Birds of Paradise is based are taken from sounds of nature heard in remote places: in woods and forests, at the ocean shore, in the mountains. A work of mysterious beauty, it reveals a comparatively new aspect of the composer's creative imagination. 34, created extraordinary interest when it was given its first performance (April 29, 1964) by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Howard Hanson. As two parts are needed for performance, there are two copies of the score included in this set.īirds of Paradise, Op. This edition is arranged by the composer for two pianos, with the second piano playing a reduction of the orchestral part. Subscribe and listen to Holler's Classic Country Songs Playlist above.Birds of Paradise was originally composed for solo piano with orchestra. Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash - Jacksonĩ8. Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGeeĩ7. Hank Williams & Drifting Cowboys - Jambalaya (On the Bayou)ĩ5. Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)ĩ4. Mark Chesnutt - Bubba Shot The Jukeboxĩ3. 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