A mourning dove sang; finches, yellow-feathered again after their winter in gray camouflage, flitted about; a woodpecker hammered at a tree.
I might surprise you in the area of foreign policy, where I believe a dove can sing softly, but carry a mighty cudgel in its surprisingly formidable talons.
Sue Anne asks whether Mac remembers a song about a dove he sang to her when she was a baby.
Red-winged blackbirds, robins, a pair of doves that sang at daybreak.
Ms. Koppeis, a former high school orchestra director who is now conductor for the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York, says she can hear the mourning doves and a mockingbird sing, and watch the sunrise over the bridge.
The winners were announced by the tenor Lawrence Brownlee, the program's affable host, and the soprano Susanna Phillips, the guest artist, who had sung "Dove sono," from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro," as the judges were in their final deliberations.
That afternoon at Carnegie Hall, she and Mr. Welser-Möst rehearsed two familiar Mozart arias, "Porgi amor" and "Dove sono," both sung by the Countess in "Le Nozze di Figaro".
In 1959 the conductor Leopold Stokowski hired her to sing the Wood Dove in a performance of Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder" with the Houston Symphony, but the orchestra's board would not allow a black soloist to appear.
Not according to the straw poll I conducted in the interval, which confirmed the hall was packed not for Schoenberg, nor even for his daughter Nuria, sitting among the audience, but for Sarah Connolly, present to sing the Wood Dove's Song from Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.
"When we were in love/I was an eagle and you were a dove," she sings.
