Word: tasso
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...aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father read aloud Milton's Paradise Lost, Cowper's Task . . . and Dryden's works. With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio. Our education was good inasmuch as we read classical works and not textbooks. What we read then has remained in my mind to this...
...Liszt: "Tasso": Lamento e triofono" Symphonic Poem...
...mythically) quarreled with Rabelais over a point of style; how Queen Bess of England sent him presents where he dwelt in his fine chateau, fattening on the income from rich abbeys and priories; how Mary, the little prisoner queen of Scotland, addressed him from her dungeon; how Tasso, poet of Italy, consulted him on this and that matter of technique? With most of the other frills and furbelows of his day, priceless and brilliant though they were, Poet Pierre is all but forgotten save by those French folk who make it their business to keep alive the glory that...
...program is as follows: Overture to the Flying Dutchman Wagner Symphony for Orchestra and Piano-forte on a French Mountain Air op. 25 D'Indy Symphonic Poem, "Ultava", from "Ma'Ulast", No. 2 Smeiana Two Nocturnes: (a) "Clouds" Debussy (b) "Festivals" Debussy "Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo", Symphonic Poem No. 2 Blast
...Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock, under the direction of Max Friedler. Rudolph Ganz will be the soloist. The program will be as follows: Beethoven, Overture to Goethe's "Egmont"; Tschaikowsky, Symphony in B minor, No. 6, "Pathetic"; Liszt, Piano Concerto in A major; Liszt, Symphonic Poem, "Tasso Lamento e Trionfo...