Bird in a Gilded Cage

This is a new setting for soprano, flute, and piano of the lyric that Arthur J. Lamb wrote to music by Harry von Tilzer in 1900. For the full text, as well as a bit of amusing background, Chatty, of Glimpses through the blog is the best source I know.


July, 2009
You can download a PDF here, and listen to a computer-generated recording here.

Here is a performance from March 6, 2026:

I got to hear a livestream concert from the Tenth International Music by Women Festival that included a performance of this along with two other pieces I wrote for voice, flute, and piano (the video is set to start just as Soprano Lydia Beasley Kneer, flutist Brittney Patterson, and pianist Laurie Middaugh are ready to play the first piece "In the Golden Room." The last piece in the set is "Asleep in the Deep").

It was particularly exciting for me to hear these three pieces performed as a set.

The flutist is not playing a gold flute, but because the concert is being held in a gold room, golden reflections glint off the flute. There is something "just right" about that.

For more links and texts for all three songs, please go to this Musical Assumptions Blogpost.