Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa, newspapermen bound for actual and potential theaters of war. Among those aboard had been Michael Kirchwey Clark, son of the Nation's Editor Freda Kirchwey; John W. Ryan; Philip Faversham, actor son of the late Actor WTilliam Faversham; Charles John Vincent Murphy, a veteran of the 1934 Byrd Antarctic expedition and an editor of FORTUNE and David Scherman, LIFE photographer who photographically pioneered U.S. bases in the Caribbean and scooped the world with views of Betty Carstairs' one-woman realm on Whale Cay, Bahamas...
...getting cold in Little America. Thirty-three members of the Byrd Expedition, 15 months away from home, piled aboard the supply ships Bear and North Star and sailed toward East Base on Marguerite Bay to pick up the 26 men there...
...Germanic Museum has announced a program of music for organ and strings to be given tonight in the main hall by E. Power Biggs and members of the Stradivarius Quartet.. Opening the program is a group of English organ solos by William Byrd. John Bull, Purcell. William Walond, organist at Oxford in the eighteenth century, and John Stanley, the famous blind organist at the Temple during the same century. Byrd's Pavan for the Earl of Salisbury was commonly played on the virginals, and Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary and Trumpet Airs on the harpsichord. But since at that time...
...possibly dangerous amendment broken, with Barkley at last steeled to hold an early-&-late session, the opposition quickly collapsed. Twenty-one amendments were slapped down; eleven minor modifications were accepted. Only one of these was possibly important: an amendment by Virginia's apple-cheeked, apple-growing Harry Byrd, to require the President to get a specific Congressional authorization before disposing of defense articles produced out of new appropriations. The Senate passed the bill...
...Sanders Theatre concert this year features on the first half of the program a collection of English elegaic music from different periods. Starting with a Byrd motet, there is music by Tallis, Dr. Arne, Francis Ireland, and Gustave Holst, and it is fascinating to observe how the elegaic motif is treated by each composer, always successfully, but in entirely different ways. The magnificent Byrd motet, Iustorum Animae, probably the finest music on the program, sums up in its short pages all the serenity and breadth of sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means...