Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERSPECTIVE (Blue Note). More jazz hymns, by Veteran Trumpeter Donald Byrd, the son of a Methodist minister...
Schooled in classic composition, Byrd is writing spirituals with jazz textures and African rhythms. There are stretches of monotony, but mostly the music comes to life, catalyzed by the performance of the excellent small choir and combo. The Black Disciple is the most effective, with its unusual rushed rhythms...
Like the Bard, pre-Bach music is not to be forgotten. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries-Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Tobias Hume, John Wilbye, John Dowland-Pro Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare's words, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not."-See Music, The Ancient's Mariner...
...performance last week of Elizabethan music in honor of Shakespeare's 400th birthday at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., the six singers and four instrumentalists served eloquent notice that pre-Bach music was not to be forgotten. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries-Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Tobias Hume, John Wilbye, John Dowland-Pro Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare's words, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight...
...Anne Byrd is successful with Ophelia's mad scenes, but her earlier ones have not been properly thought out. Her brother Laertes (Terence Scammell) is a good-looking adolescent, warm and bubbly, who gets into trouble only when he jumps into Ophelia's grave, where his ranting becomes completely unintelligible. (I'd like to see him try Romeo.) As the First Gravedigger, Rex Everhart extracts much from both the part and the ground, including, besides the two traditional skulls, an entire array of ribs, ulnas and femurs...