Double Aviary (Orchestra)

Double Aviary, Griffin Candey (2022)for solo tenor saxophone and symphonic winds Double Aviary (2023) a tenor saxophone concerto commissioned by Matt Salvaggio and the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra with saxophonist Andrew Hosler, follows an arc of climate disaster and renewal through a simple lens: shore birds. Bird populations are a core indicator of shoreline health. Because of their rich infrastructure of marsh plants, algae, and insects, shorelines attract a tremendous array of birds, all of whom play important roles in maintaining watershed biodiversity. Any number of human impacts—erosion, deforestation, chemical waste—can upset the natural equilibrium of a shoreline, threatening the migratory patterns, habitat, and reproduction of the area’s birds. In the case of the Lake Erie shoreline, the focus of this work, avian populations plummeted with the rise of massive industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries, suffocated by deforestation and depletion of prey. Only after size