Image: Jan Brueghel the Elder, “The Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark” (1613)

ANIMAL

May 23rd, 2026, 7pm at Art Share LA

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A celebration of fauna from land, water, and air! Join us as we explore diverse musical catalogues of mammals, birds, insects, and fishes that reflect nature’s astounding abundance.

Jake Heggie, Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Rebecca Clarke, and Alberto Ginastera sketch different portraits of felines. Claude Debussy, William Bolcom, and Henry Cowell capture the contrasting movements of goldfish, butterfly, and tiger. André Caplet sets fables by Jean de la Fontaine about conversations between crow and fox, grasshopper and ant, and lamb and wolf. Derek Bermel imagines what “piano music for animals” might sound like. Olivier Messiaen charts an entire day of bird calls from the wheatear to the goldfinch to the seagull. Ernest Chausson, Leoš Janáček, Benjamin Britten, Maurice Ravel, and Tom Cipullo consider human nature in relation to the hummingbird, vixen, fish, swan, and cricket.

Program:

Jake Heggie: In The Beginning …

Charles Ives: The Cage

Samuel Barber: The Monk and His Cat

Rebecca Clarke: Tiger, Tiger

Alberto Ginastera: Gato

Claude Debussy: Poissons d’or

William Bolcom: Butterflies, hummingbirds

Henry Cowell: Tiger

André Caplet: Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine

Intermission

Derek Bermel: Fetch

Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux Book 2

Ernest Chausson: Le Colibri

Leoş Janáček: Kradla jsem!

Benjamin Britten: Fish in The Unruffled Lakes

Maurice Ravel: Le Cygne

Tom Cipullo: Crickets

Artists:

Alexandre Tchaykov, piano

Sadie Habas, mezzo-soprano

Carmen Edano, mezzo-soprano

Yekaterina Lynch, soprano