CMU Museum of Cultural and Natural History curator Kirsten Nicholson holds an exotic bird kept in one of the facility's many storage rooms.

Notes from the throatcords, piano

Eric Hoy Tucker, right, prepares to sing "Harfenspieler Lieder, Opus 12" by Franz Schubert on Tuesday in front of about 125 people in the Staples Family Concert Hall. Zhihua Tang, played the piano.