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For the birds...

Canteloube and Cuckoo
Canteloube: The Cuckoo
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Here's a handful of pieces you might hear sprinkled throughout the playlist this week; plus all of our 10 a.m. "Morning Glories" will share the similar themes.

Josef Strauss: Village Swallows from Austria

Herbert Howells: Penguinski

Haydn: "Lark" Quartet

Joseph Canteloube: The Cuckoo

Gabriela Lena Frank: The Mountain Hummingbird

Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Haydn: :"Hen" Symphony

Stanford: The Blue Bird

Grieg: A Swan

Dello Joio: An Exaltation of Larks

Chausson: The Hummingbird

Kodaly: Peacock Variations

Scott Joplin: The Silver Swan

Joseph Lamb: Ragtime Bobolink

Puccini: La Rondine (The Swallow)

Rossini: The Thieving Magpie

Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel

Rachmaninoff: Prelude (The Sea and the Gulls")

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

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