In this second episode of (un)masked, Daniel will be performing and talking about Olivier Messiaen's "Le Traquet Rieur" from Catalogue d'Oiseaux, discussing Messiaen's motivation in writing 3+ hours of birdsong "transcriptions" for solo piano, how they represent a new kind of modernistic musical impressionism, and why birdsong is resonating (pun intended) for me in these current times.