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Category: Exhibitions

Woman with dark hair, fancy dress and pearls with eyes closed and mouth slightly open, singing

Tweeting Our Own Flute

Posted by: Pat Padua

This post is adapted from notes by Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford, Exhibition Curator, Music Division. The exhibition As the Old Sing, So the Young Twitter takes its inspiration from the musical and verbal relationship between birds and flutes.  In the often archaic definition of words like “twitter,” “chatter,” “record,” and “warble” are links between birdsong and human music …