First performance by Jane Edwards (soprano), Marshall McGuire (harp), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, 18 March 2005
This song is extracted from the song cycle ‘Learning to Howl‘, for soprano, soprano saxophone (clarinet/bass clarinet), harp and percussion. The Birthday of My Life is a versatile song that can also be performed by recorder and harp, and has in fact been performed on a saxophone, as an unaccompanied solo song, and as an instrumental duo for viola and vibraphone (arranged by Daryl Pratt).