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...Byrd: The Golden Renaissance Stile Antico This year marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, a leading composer of the English Renaissance....
...Round on the Links The link was the singular form of band names The Shadow of a Gunman Richard Byrd John Smith The West Wing John Carpenter Eagle “Like a Rolling Stone” Killer whale Stroke Holly...
...He became obsessed with John Coltrane, whose group he saw roughly 50 times, and he discovered African and Indonesian music....
...The main work was Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices, which was threaded through shorter pieces in praise of the Virgin Mary. The Byrd was emotionally cool, pristine in sound....
...There I began to sense a possibility when my professor, the painter Tom Phillips, introduced me to the work of John Cage....
...Letter in response to this article: How to keep this Byrd song in the repertoire / From Gavin Turner, Hanworth, Norfolk, UK...
...Those threads include links back to the composers John Dowland and William Byrd, but mostly the alchemy is Adès’s own, turning what look like familiar sequences of notes on the page into a magical world...
...In Leslie Hook’s interview piece with John Kerry (Report, July 21), the US climate envoy said of climate funding that “President Biden is trying to figure out what to do”....
...Five years later, he ran to fill the US Senate seat vacated by Robert Byrd’s death, and was re-elected in 2012, with 61 per cent of the vote....
...“When you look at the infrastructure problems across the United States, West Virginia is a pretty good example of what needs to be fixed,” said John Kilwein, a political-science professor at West Virginia...
...The landscape, by Nelson Byrd Woltz, will feature the medicinal and native plants that the original Shakers learnt about from the native Americans with whom they initially shared the land....
...He then obtained a law degree from Harvard, clerked for a federal judge and worked for President John F Kennedy’s Council of Economic Advisers....
...Jackson Browne: For Everyman (1973) Browne’s sophomore album, studded with star guests such as David Crosby, Elton John, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt, is brimming with mellow, introspective songs such...
...The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, commissioned 50 years ago by John and Dominique de Menil, is a bad building....
...Mobley died in 1986, aged 55, overshadowed by John Coltrane’s passionate experimentalism and Sonny Rollins’s architectural grandeur....
...With the help of stylist Dustin Byrd, Brittany wore a Leanne Marshall Nolina top and Claire La Faye trousers paired with Chloé shoes....
...Thanks to their huge record collection, he spent his childhood in Iceland growing to love music from Gibbons and Byrd to Thomas Adès and John Adams....
...His hero, though, was a pianist: Roy Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair. And in 1959, Rebennack played on Longhair’s single “Go to the Mardi Gras”, recorded at Matassa’s place....
...Men tend to stick to what they like, there’s a Gucci loafer guy, or a John Lobb guy. They don’t switch things up as much as women.” The pair wanted to translate this “attitude” into womenswear....
...There are snatches of lullaby sung to daughter Rosie (who gurgles in appreciation); there are old folk songs and a canon by William Byrd....
...And it was riveting,” said Ray Smock, director of the Robert C Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education....
...Throughout the war, musical friends would congregate every weekend to sing William Byrd’s four or five-part masses....
...The performance opened with two compositions by the late trumpeter Donald Byrd, the first “French Spice”, a warm-up lope, the second the short and sprightly “Fly Little Bird Fly”....
...The Byrds, meanwhile, also signed to Columbia, were encouraged to cover “Mr Tambourine Man” as their debut single....
...Religion only became important if they got close to royalty — as Tallis, along with Robert Fayrfax and William Byrd, did.”...
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