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I finally know what it is...

The birds are gone.

It was their song that welcomed me into each Spring day and the absence of their melodies has finally caught my attention.

This week Hammered! takes its programmatic cue from the probing musical curiosity of pianist Alexei Lubimov, beginning Monday with a Web cast of his Late-Night Elegies recital at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival. The haunting performance features a set of unlikely composers ranging from Valentin Silvestrov to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose Fantasia in F-sharp minor, no joke, sounds supremely freaky next to Tigran Mansurian’s Nostalgia.