Music with Nature: Dawn Chorus Plus One

Musician and author David Rothenberg will make “music with nature” at two performances at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Saturday, Apr. 20. During this performance at dawn, he will play with a chorus of singing birds at Consecration Dell, using his clarinet and some live electronic sounds. Check-in will be outside Story Chapel. Rothenberg sees his interspecies collaboration as making music with the sounds of the natural world, producing something that no one species could create alone.

David Rothenberg has made more than forty recordings and has performed and/or recorded with Peter Gabriel, Suzanne Vega, Elliott Sharp, Umru, and Iva Bittová, among others. In 2023 he was nominated for a Grammy Award for "For the Birds." His most recent work includes the books "Whale Music" and "Secret Sounds of Ponds," and the film "Nightingales In Berlin." Rothenberg is a Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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