Chausson wrote some interludes for flute and harp for a production of Aristophanes The Birds performed at Le Petit Thé tre de la Galerie Vivienne Paris in 1889. At the request of Emily Beynon working from the original manuscript which is held in the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris John McCabe has made a single concert piece using some of this incidental music a kind of continuous suite rather than a single movement.The first performance of this realisation was given on 21st January 2005 at Tunstall Parish Church Sittingbourne Kent at a concert of the Sittingbourne Music Society the artists were Emily Beynon (flute) and Catherine Beynon (harp).
