Was Beethoven A Birdwatcher? by David Turner

Author:David Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857653369
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2011-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

The robin’s ubiquity and willingness to sing with a beautiful sadness at all times makes it a kind of poor man’s nightingale, though its song lacks the variety of the latter – which explains why, as a subject for poetry, the nightingale has for centuries trumped the robin despite our affections for this feisty bird. But the robin’s constant urge to sing – and to do so as loudly as possible – earned it a small footnote in history recently. When the new Conservative prime minister David Cameron and Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg held their historic meeting in the garden of 10 Downing Street to inject some much-needed bonhomie into the new coalition, BBC Radio listeners asked which loud bird was upstaging the two Great Men by drowning out their comments with its voice. It was, of course, a robin.

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