Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glee Club and Choral Society have just issued a 12-inch record of Sixteenth Century music, mostly Palestrina, with selections of Byrd, Lassus, and Amerio (Cambridge, CRS405). Some of this is a reissue of an earlier 10-inch disc. The major section, which is new, is Palestrina's Stabat Mater, sung with freshness and purity...
...however, they had solace. If the bill's final draft clears the Ways and Means Committee on schedule this week, it will face heavy opposition on the House floor. And in the Senate there will be the Finance Committee, where presides sharp-eyed, penny-conscious Democrat Harry Flood Byrd, a man with plenty of power and a longstanding aversion to pies...
...rose on the Senate floor to move for a fortnight's postponement. Immediately. Straw Boss Mansfield took the floor, moved to table (i.e., kill) Knowland's motion, thereupon brought on a vote. Mike Mansfield's motion lost 41-36 (39 Republicans, plus Virginia's Harry Byrd and Ohio's Frank Lausche. voting against it), with Lyndon Johnson and twelve other sorely needed Democrats absent...
...Vivaldi was preceded by a Brahms motet, O Heiland Reiss die Himmel Auf, portions of a Byrd Mass, and a powerful Brahms prelude played magnificently by the organist, James Armstrong...
...glee club today has the largest repertory of any college glee club in the land: 169 works in English, Latin, French, Italian, Tagalog and German. It has recorded Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and works by such varied composers as Gabrieli, Piston. Byrd, Randall Thompson, Hindemith, Palestrina, Berlioz. Its concerts with the Boston Symphony have become city fixtures. This year, as every year, the club will perform in clubs, museums and theaters from Cambridge to Texas (48 concerts), will leave after final exams for a European tour. It performs...