Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subtle and restrained style of composers like Palestrina, Lassus, and Byrd captures this spirit of churchliness and reserved devoutness. But the less inhibited treatment of sacred texts which the tremendous resources and freedom of the concert hall fosters, though certainly less churchly, is not of necessity less pious...
...recently heard an unfavorable criticism of the Symphony of Psalms, because the details of the treatment of the text--the setting of the individual words--was considered inferior to that in the works of Byrd. This sort of comparison is useless as a way of determining the musical value of either type of composition, for in the orchestral-choral concert work, the details of fitting the individual words and phrases to the musical lines is secondary to the general movement of the whole composition. In the small church piece, on the other hand, the subtle enhancement of the phonetic...
...question thus became, not "Who got there first?" but "Did anybody get there at all?" Perhaps neither Cook nor Peary first saw the North Pole: perhaps it was first sighted, from the relatively cozy cabin of an airplane, by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett...
...Calling CQ...calling CQ...CQ" can be heard nightly rolling down the dim staircase from the heights of Weld Hall. Not the police, not Admiral Byrd, but John McG. Cochrane '43, the only undergraduate who runs and operates his own transmitting station here at Harvard...
...southward, with four feet of Penguin's, bobbed tail still hanging over the rail, Dr. Poulter was pleased with his monster's performance. Whether or not it would negotiate Antarctic ice better than it had U. S. roads, it had pulled in more publicity for an Admiral Byrd expedition than the publicity-wise Admiral himself...