“Birdsong Ear Training Techniques: sorting out the singers in the chorus!” A free program at the monthly meeting of the Kirtland Bird Club (KBC) Learning bird songs can feel a little overwhelming at times – especially in May! Bird song is music, and the techniques used in ear training and music appreciation classes can provide valuable tools for identification of avian musicians and their repertoire. Lisa Rainsong will help you sort out the singers and their songs through an approach that can be applied to many of the birds we hear. Lisa Rainsong's musical life integrates composition, education, vocal performance, and natural history. She is a member of the Music Theory faculty of The Cleveland Institute of Music, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate course in music theory and ear training. Lisa holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from CIM and is also a professional singer who performs as both a soprano soloist and as a choral musician, singing with ensembles including Quire Cleveland, and the chorus of Apollo’s Fire. She earned a Naturalist Certificate from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and now teaches classes on bird song and insect song identification throughout Northeast Ohio. She has been awarded Small Research Grants from the Geauga Park District in 2009, 2010, and 2011 for cricket and katydid surveys - research work that is done primarily by ear. All KBC monthly meetings take place at 7:30 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (1 Wade Oval Dr, Cleveland) in the downstairs classroom. Admission is free; parking is free for KBC members (you can join at the meeting or online at the KBC Web site) so bring your parking ticket in to be stamped. For more information on upcoming field trips, meetings, membership, or resources (including the authoritative book “Birds of the Cleveland Region”) please see http://www.kirtlandbirdclub.org/default1.htm ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]