Last week, at the Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition in Odense, Denmark, flutist Yuki Ota kept her composure while a butterfly alighted on her forehead in the middle of her performance at the event. You can read about the entire incident on NPR's Deceptive Cadence post here. Appropriately enough, it seems to me, it occurred during a performance of French music, a piece by Pierre Sancan, but I wish it could have been something better known, perhaps the very impressionistic Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy. Still, I admire the artist's concentration and focus to keep going in spite of the flighty interloper. Butterflies in music reminded me of another example of a whole concerto devoted to them, at least in the final metamorphosis, when the two lovers turn into butterflies at the end of the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto. Here's a video of a portion of that work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5rabRd6eg