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Staggering tales are told of the earning power of Soprano Alma Gluck's gramophone recordings. One of them has it that her Park Avenue home in Manhattan was purchased on the proceeds of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" alone. Last week figures were published to prove that she earned more than $100,000 in a single year from Victor records. A lawsuit made it public. The U. S. complained because she had felt exempt from an excess profit tax of $6,592; had paid; had sued for its return. In vain Mme. Gluck reminded the court that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Profits | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Last week two premieres were announced for a double bill. Die Maien- konigen was the curtain-raiser, a pastoral meringue, mixed & baked, it is said, by no less a man than Gluck for the birthday palate of Maria Theresa. Then came Richard Strauss's Feuersnot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philadelphia Opera | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Gluck auf! auf wiedersehn! thin-faced Germans, expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stinnes Daughter | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...program follows: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Ballet Music Gluck-Mottl Tambourin--Gavotte--Chaconne Turkish March from "The Ruins of Athens" Beethoven Ride of the Valkyries from "The Valkyrie" Wagner Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba" Gounod Suite, "Namouna" Lalo "Children's Corner," Suite Debussy-Caplet "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier Indian Sketches Gilbert Prelude--Invocation--Snake Dance Largo Handel Pomp and Circumstance Elgar

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At The Pops Tonight | 5/14/1927 | See Source »

...program follows: Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Hallelujah Vulpius O Vos Amnes Vittoria Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Fiute Obligato by Carlton Sprague-Smith Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Weelkes Give a Rouse Bahtock Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpneus" Gluck Flute Obligato by Carlton Sprague-Smith Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan Intermission Two Folk Songs The Turtle Dove Arranged by Williams Swansea Town Arranged by Halst The Hundred Pipers Scottish Folk Song Finale from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB WILL GIVE ANNUAL FINE ARTS CONCERT IN BOSTON | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

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