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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....
...William Byrd, the great English composer of the Renaissance, died 400 years ago, making this an obvious year in which to honour his work....
...An anniversary can put a figure in the spotlight – the shop’s collection of works by William Byrd was snapped up last year, 400 years after the madrigal composer’s death....
...It was particularly wonderful to hear two pieces by the English composer William Byrd in the 400th anniversary year of his death....
...This year marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of two of the most eminent composers of that time, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes....
...“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....
...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....
...Prince William, next in line to the throne, swore allegiance to his father, sealed by a kiss on his cheek....
...One is decked out in a red turban and an embroidered bust of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, another in Rasta canopy hat and William Blake’s print of a tortured slave....
...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 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....
...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...
...Hawkins went back to early music — William Byrd for rhythm and William Tisdale for “extravagant harmony” — while Fairhall referenced the English pub and name-checked the singalong pianist Winifred Atwell...
...There are snatches of lullaby sung to daughter Rosie (who gurgles in appreciation); there are old folk songs and a canon by William Byrd....
...His latest CD explores four centuries of song, from William Byrd to Michael Tippett, all inspired by Shakespeare’s writing....
...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.”...
...Fretwork interspersed the choral numbers with some of the typically rich English viol pieces of the period by Byrd and Gibbons....
...It was, she says, an act of erasure, and “I thought, I’m not going to write a piece where James Byrd is referenced but not seen”....
...Throughout the war, musical friends would congregate every weekend to sing William Byrd’s four or five-part masses....
...True to their ambition of fusing the ancient and the modern, ORA filled the chapel with the music of Elizabethan composer William Byrd, along with new commissions inspired by it....
...Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, look through the long-distance lens in a programme that ranges from Taverner and Palestrina to Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams....
...But there are tiers below: printed music by such people as William Byrd, the 16th-century English composer, remains accessible, says Cox....
...In the Protestant England of Elizabeth I the prominent Catholic composer William Byrd not only survived, but prospered....
...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....
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