Bird Song: Love for a Sacred Place
Schedule
Sun, 22 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Bastyr University Chapel | Kirkland, WA
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BIRD SONG: LOVE FOR A SACRED PLACE | February 22 at 3pm | Bastyr Chapel Berko’s Sacred Place | Works by R.V. Williams, Hagenberg, & The Wailin’ Jennys It’s 5:30 a.m. The sun’s rays filter through the window, and the chorus of birds begins to sing. This routine moment, fleeting though it may be, binds us to the earth. The outside becomes inside, and for a moment, we bear witness to nature’s simplest wonders: a bird’s love song for the world. Kirkland Choral Society’s annual love concert has evolved year by year, and this season is no exception. Rather than offering songs about love, this program invites you to become a lover—a lover of our beautiful world. Across cultures and centuries, birds have been our messengers and muses. They don’t just sing about the world; they sing from it. At the heart of this concert is Alex Berko’s Sacred Place which weaves together texts from American environmentalists and poets who reflect on their relationship—fueled by love—with the earth. If Berko’s work is an aerial view in soft pastels, then the first half prepares us for takeoff, lifting us a thousand feet into the sky. We encounter awestruck wonder in the music of Hagenberg, Vaughan Williams, and Orlandi, and the prophetic urgency of Joel Thompson’s setting of Maya Angelou’s words as birds seek to claim their sky. Their voices awaken our eyes to the joy of flight, and our hearts to the urgency of preserving and stewarding what we so easily take for granted. May our love at sunrise become action by sunset—for the earth.
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