Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scratch. In Alma, Ga., while eloquently orating at a Veterans Day celebration, Lieut. Governor Garland T. Byrd discovered that he was standing in the middle of an ant hill, and that thousands of ants were crawling up his trousers...
...jazz kick kept Byrd occupied only for a few years after his discharge from the Army. He studied at Manhattan's jazz-prone Hartnett National Music Studios, but was so enthralled by Spain's great classical guitarist, Andres Segovia, that he realized jazz was not his real love after all. The classics were the thing; for it, Byrd studied with Sophocles Papas, a friend of Segovia's, then in 1954 with Segovia himself in Siena, Italy...
More Satisfaction. Since then, Byrd has become a guitar adventurer. He has recorded guitar music of the 16th century for Washington Records, performed in concert halls including the National Gallery of Art. played his own flamenco guitar score for a production of Tennessee Williams' The Purification. He made a bow to jazz by playing in England and Saudi Arabia with the Woody Herman band, has also composed music for modern dance groups, and for the past two years has been combining classics and jazz at the Showboat...
...Byrd still loves jazz. "I just get more satisfaction out of the classics," he says. As his fans can attest, he plays both equally well. Says the Voice of America's Jazz Disk Jockey Willis Conover, who beams Byrd's wide-ranging guitar to 80-odd countries: "Charlie Byrd's versatility in the literature of the guitar surpasses that of anyone else. He is a masterful jack of all guitar trades...
...Virginia's apple-growing U.S. Senator Harry Byrd...