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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....
...Although he liked some popular music at the time — The Beatles, The Byrds, a bit of Bob Dylan — he admits it did not mean much to him....
...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....
...As Clov, Robert Sheehan plays off Boyle in a spirit of muted exasperation as he traipses back and forth servicing Hamm’s futile whims....
...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....
...“There is a historical legacy, given how adept Robert Byrd was at bringing pork to the state,” Kilwein said. “One person’s pork is another person’s important infrastructure....
...But successive Democratic leaders in the Senate — Robert Byrd, George Mitchell and Tom Daschle — turned to him when they had a problem in keeping the party caucus united behind a given issue....
...She recently sent to Manchin a private message literally on a silver platter — one given to her by her good friend, the late West Virginia senator Robert C Byrd, a hero of Manchin’s....
...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....
...Harper’s pithy tone and sharply articulated fluency were matched by the strength of trumpeter Yelfris Valdés’s rounded lines, while pianist Robert Mitchell upped the ante with dense chordal clusters and...
...And it was riveting,” said Ray Smock, director of the Robert C Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education....
...Religion only became important if they got close to royalty — as Tallis, along with Robert Fayrfax and William Byrd, did.”...
...His latest CD explores four centuries of song, from William Byrd to Michael Tippett, all inspired by Shakespeare’s writing....
...Fretwork interspersed the choral numbers with some of the typically rich English viol pieces of the period by Byrd and Gibbons....
...“It doesn’t really seem like an appropriate move,” Daniel Byrd, the senior union representative among the employees, said....
...When British botanist William Byrd II established the “Land of Eden” in the 1730s it was as a home for hardworking Swiss he hoped to attract to the colonies....
...Almost equally allusive was Byrd’s Animals....
...This “vandalism” has sometimes had comic results: Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd and Kanye West have each been falsely declared to be dead; and Rolling Stone’s website once published a false story about Halle...
...He won election to the Senate three years later and served there longer than anyone in American history except Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who died in 2010 after 51 years in the Senate....
...Even so, we know of three important people who were present: Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest who would be executed after becoming entangled in the Gunpowder Plot; poet Robert Southwell, an energetic promoter...
...Democrats on Friday named Carte Goodwin as the temporary replacement to take the West Virginia seat in the US Senate left vacant last month after the death of Robert Byrd, paving the way for the state’s...
...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....
...Also a road or two: after the wearisome gridlock of the District of Columbia, you can really appreciate the majestically underpopulated Robert C. Byrd Appalachian Highway System....
...With the death this week of Robert Byrd, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, the Democrats need Mr Brown’s support to get the legislation through Congress in a final vote expected as soon as Thursday...
...January 17 1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott arrived to plant the Union Jack at the South Pole. “Great God,” he famously wrote in his diary, “this is an awful place.”...
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