On
The Marsh
These nine original flute
compositions, written, performed and produced by Jon Sherman, are
a celebration of California's Salt Marsh community and thirteen
birds that you might hear when visiting this endangered
habitat. Since the 1850's, over ninety percent of
California's original coastal wetlands have been lost and many of
the remaining wetlands are in danger of further degradation or
destruction. May these songs, which include the authentic bird
vocalizations of Western Meadowlark, Red-winged Blackbird,
Killdeer, Least Tern, American Kestrel, Osprey, Clapper Rail, Song
Sparrow, Belted Kingfisher, Common Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrow,
Willet, and Canada Goose, inspire a renewed wonder and communion
with one of the most endangered
habitats on Earth. "On the
Marsh is a wonderful example of how man
and nature can live together in harmony.
Featuring the authentic sounds of
thirteen different bird species one
might hear at a California Salt Marsh,
Jon Sherman's
flute playing glides and soars around
their sounds, forming a united sound of
bird and man. The songs are peaceful and
beautiful, just as it is being out in
nature – or in this case, out in a salt
marsh. Jon is a true role model when it
comes to shedding a light on nature’s
delicate eco-systems, encouraging us to
remember the beauty and the importance,
beckoning us to play our
parts - to preserve and protect."
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"Of
all
the
places
along
California's
magnificent,
1,100-mile
coastline,
the
most
fragile
and
least
appreciated
are
the
wetlands.
They are where
the earth suckles the sea, a nursery of unbelievable
fertility. If the planet can be thought of as having
nests, its coastal wetlands are those nests. They are the places where
much of the Earth's food chain is born."
~ Richard O'Reilly “We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest..." ~ Henry David Thoreau "Hope and the
future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in
towns and cities, |