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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....
...When it was, the mass continued with Byrd’s Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, mezzo Aryssa Burrs lamenting “Tallis is dead” intense and tragic....
...This year marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of two of the most eminent composers of that time, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes....
...“Tom” was Thomas Weelkes, much criticised as choirmaster at Chichester Cathedral for his drunkenness and swearing, and dead at 47....
...The work in question is a new clarinet quintet entitled Alchymia, Thomas Adès the composer, Mark Simpson the clarinet....
...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....
...Jim Byrd, the narrator of this fascinating novel, is still a young man when his heart stops on its opening page. He is gone for four minutes, prey to a previously undiagnosed condition....
...Religion only became important if they got close to royalty — as Tallis, along with Robert Fayrfax and William Byrd, did.”...
...Fretwork interspersed the choral numbers with some of the typically rich English viol pieces of the period by Byrd and Gibbons....
...What is remarkable about Kevin Thomas these days is that he has what, at $13 an hour plus benefits, counts as a decent job....
...It would be nice to think that, in the week that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia died, his elegance of expression and thoughtful mind would be echoing through the committee room, but that will not be...
...He also opposed the later successful nominations of David Souter, who ironically was to become one of the more liberal justices, and Clarence Thomas, the African American rightwinger....
...The singers of Exaudi emphasised the unexpected dissonance in Byrd’s uneasy O salutaris hostia – as aware of the anguish of suffering as of salvation – but the evening was stolen by Xenakis....
...After 10 years this is Thomas Adès’s last festival as artistic director....
...For him, the heroes of the US republic are men such as Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia....
...The law “has provided windfall subsidies to a handful of large corporations while other US companies are paying the price”, said Bill Thomas, chairman of the House of Representatives ways and means committee...
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