In a lecture performance at the Singapore Writers Festival on Nov 16, Lee went behind the scenes of his enchanting live experience event Singing With Nightingales – in which Lee and a guest musician perform with the little brown bird in the Sussex woodlands.
"When the nightingales are singing – and it's the males who are singing to find the female – they are so determined to be heard by the female and the other males that they don't get scared and fly off," says the author of The Nightingale: Notes On A Songbird (2021), a love letter to nature's musician.
When playing with his musicians in the woods one night, Lee recalls: "The bird started to change his tune and sing with us, and I realised that this was another musician who understood collaboration."
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