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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