Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been brilliant. The four friends, students in the Institute of Musical Art at Manhattan, had long been wont to meet of an afternoon or evening and beguile the hours with music for their own entertainment. Often they played at the home of Efrem Zimbalist and his wife Alma Gluck, or for Jascha Heifetz. Sometimes, with one of these three the quartet would become temporarily a quintet. Admirers prevailed on them to give a series of recitals. They did so and found themselves famed. Such great virtuosos and maestros as Zimbalist, Heifetz, Arturo Toscanini verbally crowned the young artists with laurel...
...complete program as announced by Manager R. U. Jameson '32, is as follows: Overture to "lphigenia in Aulis" Gluck Suite No.2 in B minor for strings and flutes Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins and string and orchestra, soloists: Miss Comstock and Mr. Holmes Bach "Saudades do Brazil" Milhaud "Kol Nidrel"--Adaglo for violincello with orchestra, soloist: Mr. Brown Bruch Slavonic Dances Nos. 2 and 3 from Opus 46 Duorak
Decided in Manhattan last week were two long-standing lawsuits concerning royalties on Victor records. One favored the U. S. Government against Soprano Alma Gluck. Two years ago she had contended that an excess profit tax of some $6,592 was unfair, sued for its return on the grounds that royalties of more than $100,000 (received in a single year) were from records made in 1917 (TIME, Jan. 16, 1928). The other favored Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, widow of the late great tenor, a brother, Giovanni Caruso, Rudolfo and Enrico Jr., natural sons, as against Gloria, 10-year...
...called Gooschepeix Foolyphone,* an ominous engine-like instrument with coils, levers and pipes. Painstakingly oiled by celebrities in overalls, the contraption exploded after a few dismal howlings and was hung with an "Out of Order" sign. Serious peaks were reached by Baritone Emilio de Gogorza who sang a Gluck aria and by Mrs. Edward MacDowell, pianist-widow of the late great composer, who played the Andante from her husband's Keltic Sonata...