The spring migration in underway! The Cambridge Society for Early Music will offer a tribute to the denizens of the air, performed by the masterful harpsichordist Luc Beauséjour. A distinguished professor in Montreal, he has an active concertizing career and nearly 40 recordings to his credit. Beauséjour will give a charming program in honor of birds: a great variety of them, calling to each other, singing, crooning, chattering, hiding, lamenting lost love, crowing over a conquest, or just running around the barnyard. Rameau and Couperin are joined by many other French composers of the late Baroque period, seldom heard today. Among the birds are the lark, nightingale, hen, linnet (a finch), cuckoo, swallows, turtle doves and warblers. The music shows keen observation, typical of a period of scientific advance, giving rise to an abundance of musical invention.

This concert, the second of the 2019-2020 season at CSEM, will be presented five times in different venues around Boston, from April 2 to April 6. The last concert, in Cambridge, is accessible by the T.

Tickets at the door, cash or check. Reception follows.