Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gluck: Ballet Suite No. 1 (arranged by Felix Mottl) (Boston "Pops" Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). Stately dances by periwigged Composer Gluck, in a recording as cool and sparkling as jellied soup...
Divorced. Maria Zimbalist Goelet, 25, daughter of Violinist-Composer and new Curtis Institute Director Efrem Zimbalist and of oldtime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; and Ogden Goelet, 33, Newport and Manhattan socialite, amateur pianist; after three years' marriage; in Reno...
...There were a "novelty" (Gluck's Alceste) and eight operatic "revivals," some of them works which had been out of the repertory a mere three or four years. Best were those conducted by Bruno Walter: Mozart's Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Fidelio...
...Igor. Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriceto Espagnol. Tehaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite. 8:30 Musical Quiz Show, with Bill Ernst '41, Newbold Landon '42, Ben Hazard '42, and Lyman Snow '42. 9:00 Nine O'Clock Jump. 9:30 A Case for Non-Intervention: Jordan M. Whitelaw '42. 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Gluck: Alcest Overture and "Divinites du Styx." Wagner: Tanuhauser, "Dick Teure Balle." Brahma: Symphony No. 4. 10:45 News...
...conductors tend to neglect many equally good, but less known works. It takes time, energy and patience to train as orchestra in a new piece, which may be the reason why Barbirolli continues to ride his hobbyhorses of Weber overtures when he might well be exploring the overtures of Gluck and Handel, and why such a conscientious musician as Koussevitzky will in concert after concert stick to Sibelins's first two symphonics, the weakest of them all, and let the greatest, the Sixth and Seventh, gather dust on a shelf...