The Saturday evening concert at Alice Tully Hall began with one of his "little sketches of birds": "Le Merle Noir" ("Blackbird"), from 1951, in an amazingly varied performance by the flutist Claire Chase, who is also the ensemble's founder and director.
Here, the hen is elevated to high art ("La Poule"); New World savages dance violently ("Les Sauvages"); birds sing ("Le Rappel des Oiseaux").
We decided against the hour-plus wait and headed from downtown over the river along Burnside to five-year-old Le Pigeon, Little Bird's sister restaurant.
It has yielded many famous, much-travelled productions: The Mahabharata, The Conference of the Birds, La Tragédie de Carmen, Le Costume.
12h15 – Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio behind the best selling mobile app Angry Birds Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb.
Bar Agricole has reinstated tipping, as have Le Pigeon and Little Bird, in Portland, Oregon.
Le Réveil des oiseaux (1953; The Awakening of the Birds), Oiseaux exotiques (1956; Exotic Birds), and Catalogue d'oiseaux (1959; Catalog of Birds) incorporate meticulous notations of birdsong.
From a distance the two church steeples of Martinville-le-Sec and the single steeple of Vieuxvicq look like birds perching motionless on the horizon.
Thus, in his "Histoires Naturelles", the settings reflect Jules Renard's prose-poem portraits of birds and insects, be it the peacock in "Le Paon", ; the sleek, stately glide of the swan in "Le Cygne"; or the recurrent piano chirps of the grasshopper in "Le Grillon", "winding up his tiny watch".
"Like Unité d'Habitation for birds," Mr. Bonetti added, referring to the famous apartment building in Marseilles by Le Corbusier.
