George Eagles

George Byrd

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Raised in North Carolina after being born to an unwed mother, he grew up with his grandparents and began performing as a singer alongside his twin brother. Utilizing the G.I. Bill, he studied at the Juilliard School before moving to the Conservatoire de Paris, where masterclasses with Herbert von Karajan in Lucerne refined his conducting technique, leading to a seventeen-year European career. F…