International Byron Society

Hey, I found this website and it has samples from an album called "Lord Byron and the Greek War" - which is basically Lord Byron's poems turned into songs and there are some narratives. I did not what to make of it: does anyone know anything about this??

http://us.dada.net/music/johnwebster_be ... 1823m.html

(I must say; the cover of the album is a killer!!!)

Hi back Violz! isn't that "dada" a ringtones and screensavers site? that,among many of the same bunch,that pops up every my 2 or 3 clicks through the web?
hiiiihiiiiiiiiiih! I didn't know about Byron stuff on it

You may find this interesting reading.............


News from our local new paper.
A Cavalry helmet designed by Lord Byron has gone on display at his ancestral home, Newstead Abbey.
The helmet is one of 10 objects that have been chosen by museums across the county to tell a history of Nottinghamshire and its place in the world.
Byron’s helmet, the design of which he based on descriptions of armour in ancient Greek poet Homer’s ‘Iliad’. Has become a symbol of liberty after Byron’s heroics in Greece.
In 1823, the people of Greece were fighting a war of independence from Turkish rule.
Byron supported the Greeks in their struggle for freedom and took arms and medical supplies bought with his own money.
Byron, who is buried in Hucknall Parish Church, also maintained an army of 500 mercenaries from his personal funds and formed an artillery brigade from the many foreign volunteers from Europe and America who had gone to Greece to help fight the war.
However, despite Byron’s efforts to unite them, the Greek leader plotted against each other and their internal rivalries weakened their campaign against the Turks.
When he dies from fever in April 1824, Byron was celebrated worldwide as a martyr to the cause of liberty.
His sacrifice bought the Greek leader together and attracted support from other nations so that in 1829 the Greeks won their freedom. Byron remains a hero in Greece.