Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concert and has selected a program of light and classical numbers. The program follows: My Spirit Be Joyful Bach Jesu Dulcis Vittoria Spring Returns Marenzio Inimici Autem Lassus April Is In My Mistress' Face Morley Turn Ye To Me Scotch Folk Song Choruses from "Pinafore" Intermission Sullivan Ave Verum Byrd Salamaleikum Cornelius Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Coronation Scene from "Boris" Moussorgsky
...program is as follows: Mighty Lord from Christmas Oratorio of Bach Grant Us To Do With Zeal Bach Creator Alme Siderum Plain Song Jesu Dulcis Vittoria Miserere Allegri Glory and Worship Purcell Sacerdotes Domini Byrd Jerusalem Parry Credo Gretchaninoff Adoramus Te Palestrina Then Round About the Starry Throne Handel
...Byrd's failure to take off for France before Lindbergh did is the first object of Fokker's scorn. Concerning the flight itself (in the Fokker-built America), Fokker dwells upon what airmen already knew: that the ability and steady nerve of Pilot Bernt Balchen were largely-if not solely-responsible for the right-side-up landing of the plane near Ver-Sur-Mer in France and the escape of the crew. Here he italicizes a sentence from Byrd's own book Skyward: "Balchen happened to be at the wheel...
...cause for Fokker's rancor suggests itself earlier in the same chapter, where he tells of selling his first trimotored plane to Byrd for the latter's North Pole flight of 1926 "on condition that the Fokker name would be left on it. Edsel Ford had liberally financed Byrd, still, I was somewhat surprised to hear later that the Fokker had somehow become Josephine Ford...
Sought out by newshawks last week, the scattered crew of the America made characteristic comments. Said Byrd in Little Rock, Ark.: "I have no objection to Mr. Fokker's saying that Balchen did the better job on the transatlantic flight than I did. I have always felt that way myself." Said Bernt Balchen, shy by nature and embarrassed by his present position as a Fokker testpilot: "I don't know where Tony got all his information; but there are no mistakes in it." From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took...