Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vienna is one of the few companies in the world able to claim that such figures move among its ranks as animating spirits. Opera in Vienna goes back to the early days of the form, when the city's cultivated imperial courts began attracting major composers, starting with Gluck. Today the company can work from scores personally annotated by Strauss and another former director, Gustav Mahler. Such authenticity in itself is no guarantee of quality, but to the performances last week in Washington it added a living spark of history. Washington, as history-minded a city...
...child in pre-partition Palestine. Despite their poverty, her parents were determined to give her as much culture as possible. Fortunately the neighborhood dance teacher was Gertrud Kraus, once a well known dancer-choreographer in Europe. At the age of 16 she began to study and perform with Rena Gluck of the Graham School. When Anna Sokolow came to Esrael around 1958, Ze'eva performed in her Lyrical TTheater. Sokolow was so impressed by the young performer that she offered Ze'eva a ticket to the United States so she could study on scholarship at the Juillard School of Music...
Three of opera's "great progressivists," Igor Stravinsky once declared, were Gluck, Wagner-and the Viennese modernist Alban Berg. Stravinsky was not being merely provocative. As the years go by, Berg's claim to belong in such illustrious company looks more and more secure. It rests on two complex, powerful works, Wozzeck and Lulu, that in effect brought opera into the 20th century. Lulu, in particular, packed traditional operatic emotion and drama into the most advanced of forms, the twelve-tone system devised by Berg's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg...
...June heat. Finally, in music building, he caught sight of Professor Edward Burlingame Hill, a music professor who was about to leave for a vacation in New Hampshire. Hanfstaengl, a tall, strapping man, accosted Hill and insisted that he take the statues, one of Schopenhauer, the other of Van Gluck, another German composer. Hill could find room only for the Van Gluck replica, but he did turn out to be a friendly man, and heand Hanfy spent the afternoon in Boston, antique stores...
...Gluck's "Orpheo and Eurydice...