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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....
...As a wide-ranging introduction to one of the greatest of English composers, this starts Byrd’s anniversary year in some style. ★★★★☆ ‘The Golden Renaissance: William Byrd’ is released by Decca...
...“Will” was William Byrd, aged over 80 at his death and renowned today for his great Catholic masses from the Protestant age of Elizabeth I....
...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...
...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....
...Sculptor Richard Serra was a neighbour of Reich’s at the time in Lower Manhattan, as was experimental filmmaker Michael Snow....
...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...
...The bookends of his political career were his role in drafting the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon for his Watergate “high crimes and misdemeanours” and, some 30 years later,...
...One of those leavers is Elysia Byrd, who is painting the walls of her new home when she answers the phone....
...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....
...With the help of stylist Dustin Byrd, Brittany wore a Leanne Marshall Nolina top and Claire La Faye trousers paired with Chloé shoes....
...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....
...Byrd Motets The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (King’s College Recordings) The wealth of music that sprang from William Byrd, a Catholic composer in Elizabeth I’s Protestant England, never ceases...
...Religion only became important if they got close to royalty — as Tallis, along with Robert Fayrfax and William Byrd, did.”...
...Allegri, Byrd, et al Refuge from the flames ORA (Harmonia Mundi) It seems fitting that sacred music should build on the foundations set down centuries before....
...The Byrds, meanwhile, also signed to Columbia, were encouraged to cover “Mr Tambourine Man” as their debut single....
...And it was riveting,” said Ray Smock, director of the Robert C Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education....
...Fretwork interspersed the choral numbers with some of the typically rich English viol pieces of the period by Byrd and Gibbons....
...Since then, the song has been covered (mostly live) every which way by a Who’s Who of rock’n’roll, including The Beatles (peppy), The Byrds (copying Brian Jones’ harmonica), Bob Dylan (countrified), Bruce...
...It helped launch The Byrds to stardom and was pivotal in the development of indie rock. Richard Clayton follows its history. Credits: Columbia, Legacy, Spectrum, Naxos...
...His 40 years of experience as a harpsichordist (not to mention conductor) is reflected in a wide range of music that leads from the Italy of Scarlatti and Frescobaldi to the England of Byrd and Tallis....
...It was an unusual idea to place Tudor English choral works by Byrd and Tallis alongside the contemporary Estonian Arvo Pärt, but the contrasts work — two private worlds poles apart, Byrd’s complexities of...
...The tone is predominantly uplifting in its celebration of the Resurrection — lively rhythms in settings of “Haec dies” by Byrd and the contemporary Matthew Martin, heart-warming English harmonies from Hadley...
...Dering and Byrd, to Ernest Bullock and Kenneth Leighton, reinventing the tradition for the 20th century....
...Byrd Three Masses Choir of Westminster Cathedral (Hyperion)...
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