Twins, Birdsong, and the End of the World

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Twins, Birdsong, and the End of the World

Linda recently dreamed that we had twins, Mary the Painter and Merton. I recently ran across this article about Olivier Messaien which included some interesting information about music and birds.

He was most famous for composing a quartet that brings us to this quiz.

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