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Zimbalist had just arrived in the U. S. (1911) when he met Soprano Alma Gluck. She was standing at the prow of a ferryboat, on her way to sing in New Jersey. Some one spoke to her and she turned around to see Zimbalist standing there with a great wide smile wrinkling up his homely face. For three years thereafter he hung around the Metropolitan Opera stage door while she insisted that she was not interested in marrying again, that it would not be becoming for her to marry a man younger than herself. Finally she surrendered, and there began...
...vicissitude,† and at 38 (Mary Garden who left this year is 54) she may look forward to years more of good & bad times. Tall, swart, she has neither the chic of Lucrezia Bori nor the Viennese brilliance of Maria Jeritza: she looks Jewish, and like Soprano Alma Gluck and Contralto Sophie Braslau, is proud of it. Annually (except this year) she gives a concert of which the proceeds go to the Raisa Scholarship Foundation, for the musical education of one Jewish boy singer a year. Like many a great singer, she likes to live quietly, hates large parties, guards...
Associated intimately with Mr. Whiting and his concerts was George Barrere, who never failed, year in and year out, to perform on his famous flute with a perfection known only to the foremost flutists of history. And just as intimately associated as Mr. Whiting was the Gluck Melodie which he rendered every year with ever increasing freshness and variety...
Overture, "Dedication of the House DeKoven Aria from "Orpheus" Gluck Symphony in B Flat Haydn Rosamunde Ballet Music Schubert Recitative and Aria from "Odysseus" Bruck Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" Wagner...
This afternoon's program will be composed of exactly the same numbers as that first one fifty years ago. It will be opened fittingly by Reginald DeKoven's Overture, "Dedication of the House." Madame Matzenauer, who replaces the soloist of the first concert, will have two arias, one from Gluck's "Orpheus," the other from Bruck's "Odysseus." Many of the audience will recall her singing in the Brahms Festival of this past spring...