Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Torrington, Conn. 13-year-old Minnie Pisanti ran into the street, was killed by an automobile driven by Alma Gluck Zimbalist, soprano wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Under his oxygen tent at Riverside, Calif. Comedian W. C. Fields (Poppy), fighting pneumonia, was shown a newspaper picture of himself with the caption "Improved." Cracked he: "If I die tonight, they can say I died 'improved...
...Gladys Swarthout's husband, went to Englewood, N. J. for a golfing holiday in 1933, spent their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore, Artur Bodanzky, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Paul Whiteman, Deems Taylor, Albert Spalding...
With high hopes one evening last week hundreds of earnest music-lovers went to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, prepared to listen in all respect to a long-neglected masterpiece. Gluck's Orjeo et Eurydice, missing from the Metropolitan repertoire since 1914, had been promised as one of the highlights of the Popular Spring Season (TIME, May 25). The production was to be in a way experimental, with the singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar...
...young U. S. singers, to attract people who want to hear good opera but who have hitherto shied away from the formality and the high prices that prevail throughout the winter season. The first week was pronounced a definite success. Rehearsals were called for more productions: a revival of Gluck's Orpheus aiul Eurydice; the U. S. premiere of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi...
...program appears a new composition by Delaney and an adagio for violin and strings, dedicated to Malcolm H. Holmes, who will direct the program. The rest of the program: Gluck Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Hindemith Funf Stucke Rosetti Symphony in G-Minor Delaney Adagio for violin and strings George K. Mateyo, soloist DeFalla Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breva...