The Steel Skylark
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It was inspired by one of Britain's rarest birds and written for a Worcestershire musician to perform.
Now the classical piece 'The Lark Ascending' is set to be the driving influence behind a new sculpture of a skylark in Malvern.
If approved by councillors a 20ft tall steel structure would be installed in the town's Rose Bank gardens.
But what is it about the bird itself that inspires so many artists?
I went to meet ornithologist Simon Roberts, from the Malvern Hills Trust: