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A series of great  OPERA Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records

Jewish Bessarabian Sorprano Alma Gluck in two Bird Songs
 in a song from Shakespeare Venus and Adonis
Two takes were issued this is TAKE 2

Lo, here the gentle lark
Henry R. Bishop (composer) 
William Shakespeare (author) 

Alma Gluck (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Victor Orchestra (Musical group) 
Victor Herbert (conductor) 
Clement Barone (instrumentalist : flute) 
Description: Soprano vocal solo, with flute and orchestra

Language: English
Master Size: 10-in.
Notes
6/10/1912 Camden, New Jersey 2 Master 

This is TAKE 1 of 2 issued takes
Nightingale song
The Tyrolean
Vögelhändler. Wie mein Ahnl zwanzig Jahr
Carl Zeller (composer) 
F. A. Rickar (arranger) 

Alma Gluck (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Walter B. Rogers (conductor) 
Charles Kellogg (vocalist) 
Description: Soprano vocal solo, with bird imitations and orchestra

2/18/1916 Camden, New Jersey 1 h/d/m Victor 654


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Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest,
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high,
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.

Venus salutes him with this fair good-morrow:
'O thou clear god, and patron of all light,
From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow
The beauteous influence that makes him bright,
There lives a son that suck'd an earthly mother,
May lend thee light, as thou dost lend to other.'


Alma Gluck
Nombre real:
Reba Feinsohn
Perfil:
Romanian-American soprano, May 11, 1884 – October 27, 1938. She frequently recorded with her second husband, violinist Efrem Zimbalist, and also with contralto Louise Homer in various duets. Mother of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. and grandmother of actress Stephanie Zimbalist.

Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884 – October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-born American soprano.[1]

Biography
Gluck was born as Reba Feinsohn to a Jewish family in Ia?i, Romania, the daughter of Zara and Leon Feinsohn.[2] Gluck moved to the United States at a young age. Although her initial success came at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Gluck later concertized widely in America and became an early recording artist. Although various sources claim that her recording of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" for the Victor Talking Machine Co. was the first celebrity recording by a classical musician to sell one million copies, Victor ledgers do not support the claim—nor did Gluck ever make such a claim herself. It was awarded a gold disc, only the seventh to be granted at that time.[3] Gluck was a founder of the American Woman's Association.

Her daughter Marcia Davenport was the child of her first marriage (to Bernard Glick, an insurance man).[2] Gluck later married violinist Efrem Zimbalist and had two children, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (1918–2014)[4] and Maria. Gluck evidently adopted her professional surname as a variation of her first husband's surname ("Glick").

Gluck retired to New Hartford, Connecticut, to raise her family in 1925. Although by background an assimilated and nonpracticing Jew who continued to consider herself ethnically Jewish, she found herself attracted, along with her husband Efrem, to Anglican Christianity, and they regularly attended the Episcopal Church in New Hartford. Efrem Jr. and Maria were both christened there, and the couple placed Efrem in an Episcopal boarding school in New Hampshire. Efrem Jr. later became active in evangelical circles and was one of the founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network.[5][6][7][8] Gluck recorded several Christian hymns in duet with Louise Homer, among them "Rock of Ages",[9] "Whispering Hope",[10] "One Sweetly Solemn Thought",[11] and "Jesus, Lover of My Soul".[12]

After a long illness, she was taken to the Rockefeller Institute Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, but died from liver failure several days later, at 9:30 am on October 27, 1938, at the age of 54.[1]

Legacy
Gluck was the grandmother to actress Stephanie Zimbalist.[13]

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