Online event

Birds on a Long Wire is the title of a large-scale ensemble work by Swiss Composer Margrit Schenker, commissioned by the Vocal Constructivists for the festival Through the Square Window, a celebration of their tenth anniversary in 2021. Due to the Pandemic, the celebration was held online on 5 and 6 June 2021.

Made up of a number of ensemble pieces with voices and instruments of both live and recorded performances, Birds on a Long Wire includes a series of ‘bird’ pieces for solo harpsichord. Schenker subsequently added to the existing collection and the complete cycle of 14 solo harpsichord pieces, written for Chau-Yee Lo, is known as Bird Litany (2021-2022).