Catalaunian Fields
Catalaunian Fields (or Catalaunian Plains) The site of a major battle in 451 AD, reputedly near Châlons-sur-Marne in France, but placed by some nearer Troyes. The Roman general Aetius with a combined force of Romans, Goths, and Burgundians defeated
ATTILA the Hun, forcing his retreat from Gaul. He was expelled from Italy the following year.
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Massenet: Manon / Alma Gluck / Johanna Gadski / Elisabeth Schumann
Magazine article from: Opera News; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Busser (1923). No libretto. Marston 52003 (2) Alma Gluck *ARIAS & SONGS. No texts. Marston 52001 (2...Carre, Lucette Korsoff and Aline Vallandri. Although Alma Gluck had a relatively limited opera career, she was one of...
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SINGER ON OLD VICTROLA RECORD WAS THE FAMOUS ALMA GLUCK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/25/2005; 444 words
; ...fingers failed you. The record featured Alma Gluck, not "Black." Calling her "Black...recordings for a few bucks each. Gluck was Romanian, I think. She had an...mouth is probably closer to "boid." Gluck was an important artist: She had...
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 "The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)")
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Betty Jean (Bleich) Gluck.(OBITUARIES 2)
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 3/7/2008; 511 words
; ...Artistic and creative, Mrs. Gluck was an astute business woman...sacrifice. Wife of the late Arthur Gluck, she is survived by her children...of New York City, Alan H. Gluck of Cambridge and Marjorie Dell...Sylvia Miller and the late Alma Silberberg. She was the daughter...
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Exclusive short story; The final sacrifice A princess who became a victim, a death that ended in immortality. Jeanette Winterson reworks the classic Gluck opera, `Iphigenie en Aulide', for a modern audience. Illustration by Shonagh Rae
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/20/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...roundabout on to the Cours de la Reine. He knew there was a straight run here, before a short tunnel beneath the Place de l'Alma. There was plenty of time for a car with a V12 engine to reach high speed. The couple in the back held hands. The motorcycles...
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Soprano broke the million mark
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/28/2003; ; 636 words
; ...Virginny" by Romanian-American soprano Alma Gluck, accompanied by a male chorus. Along with Irish tenor John McCormack, Gluck might be considered the first great...issued all but 18 of the 116 recordings Gluck made on 78 R.P.M. discs, in...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/3/1990; 414 words
; ...Zimbalist Jr.'s mother the noted singer Alma Gluck or was his violinist-father married to someone...composer-teacher Efrem Zimbalist and soprano Gluck. Born Reba Fiersohn in Romania in 1884, Gluck came to this country as a child and was wed...
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Marston releases are window to history
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/2/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...52002); and two discs of arias and songs by America's Alma Gluck (52001). The "Manon" is the second in a series of...Stabat Mater." Far more famous and remembered was Alma Gluck, though her repertory was that of the lyric rather than...
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Who Slapped Whom?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/1/1997; 700+ words
; ...Philadelphia on May 5, 1911. Also enormously forgotten is Alma Gluck, whose recording of "Carry Me Back . . . " on the RCA...first million-selling record of this century. Perhaps Alma Gluck doesn't matter, but James Bland -- a talented, happening...
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 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 1/14/2008; 611 words
; ...individual recordings achieved a million sales by itself. He goes on to say that Carry Me Back to My Old Virginny by Alma Gluck was the first single recording to surpass the one million sales mark. But Ged Hedley, of Throckley, disagrees and...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Actress Roles Over 40? 'It's a Big Fat Zero'.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 11/24/2003; 700+ words
; ...Stephanie's late paternal grandfather, Efrem Zimbalist Sr., was a renowned violinist, married to the opera star Alma Gluck; her niece, Kristy Zimbalist, toiled under Kate Betts at Harper's Bazaar. Stephanie inherited some of the musical...
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Gluck, Alma
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Gluck, Alma [ Fiersohn, Reba ] ( b Bucharest, 1884; d NY, 1938). Amer. soprano...married 1914). Daughter by first husband was Marcia Davenport (Abigail Gluck), the novelist and writer on music.
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Alma Gluck
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alma Gluck , 1884-1938, American soprano, b. Bucharest, Romania. Her real name was Reba Fiersohn. She sang (1909-12) at the Metropolitan...
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Efrem Zimbalist
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...concert career was enormously successful; he did much to revive interest in early violin music. In 1914 he married Alma Gluck , who died in 1938. He joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, in 1928 and from 1941 to...
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Carnegie, Hattie 1886-1956
Book article from: American Decades
...sophisticated appearance, they began to attract a clientele that included Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and opera singer Alma Gluck. Success In 1919 Carnegie bought out Roth's interest in the shop and made the first of her more than one hundred trips...
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Davenport, Marcia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Davenport, Marcia (1903–94), music critic and author, daughter of the singer Alma Gluck, wrote Mozart (1932); and the novels Of Lena Geyer (1936), about a musician; The Valley of Decision (1943), tracing...
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