Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forbes drew out a perfectly blended tone in Byrd's Ave Verum that seemed to glow from one warm, focal center. As the separate vocal lines developed, he maintained them with clarity and definition. But dynamics were problematic and in loud passages the tone became flat and a little harsh...
...Theater Friday evening, the massed forces of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of Elliot Forbes, unleashed a mighty force de frappe in a program calculated to drive the audience into an unholy frenzy. The first half featured delicate works by Elizabethans William Byrd and Thomas Tallis and neo-Elizabethan Benjamin Britten. But after intermission the choir was joined by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, a bacchanale celebrating the headiest side of springtime...
...budgetary procedures; the inviolability of the state constitution; a ban on sales of liquor by the drink; an end to billing poll-tax payments; an end to racial segregation in jails and prisons. Has the Old Dominion gone liberal? Decidedly not, insists the chief architect of change, Byrd-Democrat Mills Godwin, 53, Governor since 1966. "It's realism...
...more given to prodigality than his mentor, Senator Harry Byrd (who died in 1966), Godwin is considerably more willing to concede that change is inexorable. When he took office, Virginia's financially starved educational system ranked 38th nationally in dollars spent per pupil, not to mention the illiteracy rate and median school years completed. It ranked dead last among ten Southern states in school expenditures as a percentage of personal income. Yet, thanks largely to the suburban outflow of well-to-do Washingtonians, Virginia's voters today are the wealthiest citizens in the entire South...
Died. Thomas B. Byrd, 78, youngest and last survivor of Virginia's famed Tom, Dick and Harry brothers; after a long illness; in Boyce, Va. Dick, better known as Admiral Richard E. Byrd, was the great Antarctic explorer; Harry, of course, was a pillar of the U.S. Senate from 1933 to 1965; and Tom was the one who stayed home, quietly building the family fortune in Shenandoah Valley apple orchards...