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...Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: Her Fake Book"; Linsey C. Marr '96 for "A Flourescent Torchiere and Energy Savings at Harvard"; Jeremy L. Martin '96 for "The Mathieu Group M12 and Conway's M13-Game"; and Andrew L. Wright '96 for "'The Seeds of History, the License to Invent': Torquato Tasso Between History and Fiction...
...opera put to music by that surprising genius, with the greatest of perfection, in only two weeks." The genius was George Frideric Handel, then 26. The opera was Rinaldo, conceived, composed and staged for London's Haymarket Theater in 1711. Based on an epic about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general Rinaldo and the Saracen queen Armida. It is a spectacular mixture of pagan magic, military pomp, vocal fireworks and other trappings of the Italian Baroque operatic style, then the rage in London. During the "Bird Song" of Almirena, Rinaldo...
...German barber-surgeon, Handel had left his home town of Halle at 18, had spent three years in Italy schooling himself in opera and oratorio. On his first visit to England, he patched Rinaldo together in a scant two weeks. Based on the poem by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), the opera was derided by Addison in The Spectator for its "Painted dragons spitting wildfire, and enchanted chariots drawn by Flanders mares." But its lush melodies were just what the public wanted: it became the first real operatic hit in English history. Its success won Handel a ?200 annual pension from...
With no knowledge of campaigning and little understanding of issues, gentle, bewildered Mrs. Coffey had been thrust into the race by the district's ambitious Democratic boss, flashy, dark-eyed John R. Torquato. Torquato's organization had upset the dominant Republicans hst November by sending War Hero Bob Coffey to Congress. They did it with the help of the 55,000 union members in the district, nearly half of them mineworkers. They were out to repeat...
...lecture in Italian, open to the public, will be given by Professor Torquato Giannini of University of Rome in Emerson J at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject is "La Navigazione in Virgilio...