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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...
...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...
Speaking of music in wartime, British Poet Stephen Spender reported in his otherwise literate September Journal: "[T. S.] Eliot said that he did not care to listen to Beethoven so much as formerly just now. We both agreed on Bach and Gluck...
...Riviera with his delicious mother, Beauty Budd, nee Mabel Blackless. A symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower classes...