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...Sir Michael Tippett is popular at the moment, following a biography and documentary....
...Sculptor Richard Serra was a neighbour of Reich’s at the time in Lower Manhattan, as was experimental filmmaker Michael Snow....
...Among the singers, Michael Mofidian’s resonant bass voice stood out as Herod....
...Being able to relate to student athletes on a personal level often helps close the deal, said Rozier-Byrd, a former Boston College track runner....
...A sweet-toothed, amateurish pop indebted to Buzzcocks and The Byrds, it was represented by Primal Scream, The Soup Dragons, Shop Assistants and The Pastels....
...Theo Croker’s assured virtuosity and innate sense of swing reflect early-years tutoring from grandfather Doc Cheatham and mentoring by soul-jazz legend Donald Byrd....
...In early 1966, The Byrds scandalised polite society by releasing “Eight Miles High”, the most outrageously hallucinatory single yet recorded....
...She is seen, playing with Dylan and Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, singing them a new song, “Coyote”, in the apartment of singer Gordon Lightfoot....
...It is presented as the deathbed testimony of the grandfather of the narrator, who happens to be named Michael Chabon....
...And it was riveting,” said Ray Smock, director of the Robert C Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education....
...The Byrds, meanwhile, also signed to Columbia, were encouraged to cover “Mr Tambourine Man” as their debut single....
...His latest CD explores four centuries of song, from William Byrd to Michael Tippett, all inspired by Shakespeare’s writing....
...The Economist’s Schumpeter columnist, meanwhile, notes that in the 1940s the late Senator Robert Byrd held the title “exalted cyclops” in the Ku Klux Klan....
...In West Virginia, Joe Manchin, Democratic candidate, won the race for the Senate seat vacated by the death of Robert Byrd, edging out his Republican rival, John Raese of the Tea Party....
...According to Hancock, only Eddy Grant had appeared before him, and, at around the same time, Michael Jackson. He hopes that The Imagine Project will also be a force for change....
...Howells St John’s Magnificat: Choral works by Herbert Howells Choir of St John’s College, CambridgeChandos English church music has a long and distinctive tradition dating back to the 16th century (Tallis, Byrd...
...The inward-looking poems of John Donne, read by Michael Pennington, and the “Agnus Dei” from Byrd’s Four Part Mass, sung by four solo singers, held the audience silent....
...The SEC on Friday alleged that Michael Byrd, who served as chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Brocade before resigned from the company in 2003, failed to follow up on information that...
...Earlier this month, the SEC charged Michael Byrd, Brocade’s former chief financial officer, with fraud for his alleged role in backdating at the company....
...College-rock favourites in the 1980s, their sound looked back to the jangling guitars of The Byrds yet their principles were forged by punk....
...For him, the heroes of the US republic are men such as Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia....
...Alone among Hirst’s generation to show originality here is the pop-minimalist Jim Lambie, a Glaswegian outsider, whose giant, multicoloured, painted-mirror “Byrds” (2005), with paint spreading on to the...
...With his band The Soft Boys, he played music that was influenced by the “four Bs”, two British, two American: (Syd) Barrett, Captain Beefheart, The Beatles and The Byrds....
...In his only other defeat, he was giving Chris Byrd a drubbing when Klitschko tore his rotator cuff in the seventh round....
...Klitschko is not without flaws: there were allegations of steroid use in his amateur days; he lost to Lennox Lewis because he cut badly; and his only other defeat, against Chris Byrd nearly five years ago...
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