To paint the portrait of a bird - after the poem by Jacques Prévert - for alto and guitar

My translation and setting of the Prévert poem about the impossibility of capturing the essence of a bird. You can paint a cage, a tree branch for it to sing on, but you have to have the actual bird itself in your painting - only then can you sign your painting with a feather from that bird.
Score of this version and mp3s of both the english and original French versions are available at
http://www.archive.org/details/ToPaintThePortraitOfABird-AfterThePoemByJacque...

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Music

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• prevert
• prévert
• bird
• portrait
• alto
• countertenor
• classical guitar
• David W Solomons
• dw solo
• Acoustic
• Birds

[inextinguishable00]

Very interesting. Have you heard Zdenek Liska's version in Jan Svankmajer's "The Ossuary"?

[dwsolo]

@inextinguishable00 Hi yes I heard and saw it just now. Interesting film to go with it - not quite how I visualised it, but effective.

[8thumbs2fingers]

David , you have produced another peice of magic my friend !! I love this ....

[lalagonegaga]

Makes chills go up and down my spine. Wonderful.

[mradaChris]

Awesome my friend! Such beauty in your voice! So delicate and tender. Fabulous!

c.