Richard Byrd

Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Grev27 at Jan. 16, 2014
Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole

Sheldon Bart, "Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole"
English | ISBN: 1621570827 | 2013 | EPUB + MOBI | 328 pages | 0,9 + 1,1 MB
Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole (Repost)

Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole by Sheldon Bart
English | September 24th, 2013 | ISBN: 1621570827 | 578 Pages | EPUB | 0.95 MB

In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole. What inspired their dangerous fascination? For some, it was the romantic theory about a “lost world,” a hidden continent in the Arctic Ocean.
PBS American Experience - Alone on the Ice: The Story of Admiral Richard Byrd (1998)

PBS American Experience - Alone on the Ice: The Story of Admiral Richard Byrd (1998)
DVDRip | 704x536 | .AVI/XviD @ 2098 Kbps | 55mn 52s | Audio: English AC3 256 kbps, 3 channels | Subs: None | 946 MiB
Genre: Documentary

In June 1934, as temperatures dropped 70 degrees below zero, Richard Byrd lay alone in a tiny hut near the South Pole, close to death. No one had ever experienced winter in the interior of Antarctica. Desperately ill, Byrd made a note in his diary: Fully expect to die. In an age of heroes, he was one of the world's greatest. An explorer, aviation pioneer and scientist, Byrd was also an egotist, risk-taker - and, his critcs claim, a self-promoter who took credit for the accomplishments of others. Byrd became an international hero after he claimed to have made the first flight over the North Pole. But some questioned whether he had really made it. Underrated, Byrd set out for Antarctica, where he would be the first to fly over the Soth Pole. Then, with no poles left to conquer, he secretly planned a dramatic feat: enduring the winter alone on the polar ice. Drawing on compelling archival footage, interviews with family members, colleagues and historians, and rich musical score, ALONE ON THE ICE tells the remarkable story of America's most famous, and controversial polar explorer.

Admiral Richard Byrd: Alone in the Antarctic [Audiobook]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tarantoga at July 22, 2018
Admiral Richard Byrd: Alone in the Antarctic [Audiobook]

Paul Rink, Jay Snyder (Narrator), "Admiral Richard Byrd: Alone in the Antarctic"
ASIN: B002FY9JS8 | 2009 | M4B@62 kbps | ~05:14:00 | 147 MB

Richard Egarr - One Byrde in Hande: William Byrd (2018)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 29, 2024
Richard Egarr - One Byrde in Hande: William Byrd (2018)

Richard Egarr - One Byrde in Hande: William Byrd (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 372 Mb | Total time: 62:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | CKD 518 | Recorded: 2017

In his debut solo recording for Linn, Richard Egarr charts the extraordinary breadth of invention at play in works by William Byrd. Richard Egarr’s impressive career, both as a solo keyboardist and conductor (notably with the Academy of Ancient Music), has cemented his reputation as one of the UK’s most compelling musicians.
Phantasm - William Byrd, Richard Mico: Still Music of the Spheres (1997)

Phantasm - William Byrd, Richard Mico: Still Music of the Spheres (1997)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:33 | 326 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Simax Classics | Catalog: PSC 1143

The performances on this CD come as a revelation. William Byrd is a great and vivacious composer. Richard Mico is more than a museum novelty. I had some lingering doubts, based on earnest but amateurish performances heard in the past. Phantasm brings all the virtuosity of a major string quartet to these consort fantasies and pavanes: perfect tuning, incisiveness bow work, highly individuated phrasing, judiciously varied tempi and uses of rubato.
Tessa Bonner, Rose Consort of Viols, Red Byrd - Byrd: Consort & Keyboard Music, Songs and Anthems (1994)

Tessa Bonner, Rose Consort of Viols, Red Byrd - Byrd: Consort & Keyboard Music, Songs and Anthems (1994)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:29 | 354 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.550604

Red Byrd is certainly among the most unusual ensembles before the public today: at its core are two singers, a tenor and bass, who typically engage the services of other vocalists or choral groups, and/or employ the accompaniment of various instrumentalists or instrumental ensembles. It has performed much early music repertory both in concert, including festival appearances, and on recordings.
Charlie Byrd - Travellin' Man (1965) & The Touch of Gold (1966) [Reissue 2007]

Charlie Byrd - Travellin' Man (1965) & The Touch of Gold (1966) [Reissue 2007]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 391 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Latin Jazz, Guitar Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Collectables (COL-CD-7854)

Collectables combines two very different back-to-back recordings made by guitarist Charlie Byrd for Columbia in the mid-'60s. Travellin' Man (issued in 1965) is a live gig at the Showboat in Washington D.C., a club he was playing in - and owned - 36 weeks out of the year. He is featured with his bass playing brother Joe, and the rather astonishing drummer Bill Reichenbach. The program consists of everything from originals like the title cut and the country and bluegrass tinged opener "Mama I'll Be Home Someday" to Michel Legrand's "I Will Wait for You." With tunes like the Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim standard "Do I Hear a Waltz," Billy Strayhorn's "U.M.M.G.," and Django Reinhardt's "Nuages" sandwiched in between. It' is a hard swinging date where Byrd, a great melodic improviser, turns original arrangements inside out and pours his love for bossa and blues into everything he plays…

Charlie Byrd - Aquarius (1969/2021)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 19, 2021
Charlie Byrd - Aquarius (1969/2021)

Charlie Byrd - Aquarius (1969/2021)
FLAC (Tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Official Digital Download | Time: 00:33:47
Easy Listening | Label: Columbia, Legacy | ~ 1.54 Gb

Tasteful, low-key, and ingratiatingly melodic, Charlie Byrd had two notable accomplishments to his credit – applying acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and popular music and helping to introduce Brazilian music to mass North American audiences…
The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd—How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the...

The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd—How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole by Anthony Galvin
English | November 18th, 2014 | ISBN: 1629145041 | 368 Pages | EPUB | 1.47 MB

In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans—Frederick Cook and Robert Peary—each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims.