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Full Name
  
Reba Feinsohn

Name
  
Alma Gluck

Parent(s)
  
Zara and Leon Feinsohn

Role
  
Soprano

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Born
  
May 11, 1884 (
1884-05-11
)

Died
  
October 27, 1938, New York City, New York, United States

Spouse
  
Efrem Zimbalist (m. 1914–1938)

Children
  
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Marcia Davenport

Similar People
  
Efrem Zimbalist, Louise Homer, Efrem Zimbalist - Jr, Stephanie Zimbalist, Marcia Davenport

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

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Biography

Gluck was born as Reba Feinsohn to a Jewish family in Iasi, Romania, the daughter of Zara and Leon Feinsohn. 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. 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. It was awarded a gold disc, only the seventh to be granted at that time. 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). Gluck later married violinist Efrem Zimbalist and had two children, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (1918-2014) 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. Gluck recorded several Christian hymns in duet with Louise Homer, among them "Rock of Ages", "Whispering Hope", "One Sweetly Solemn Thought", and "Jesus, Lover of My Soul".

She had been ill for a long time and was taken to hospital several days before her death. She died at 9:30 am at the Rockefeller Institute Hospital on October 27, 1938 in Manhattan, New York City. She was 54 years old and died from liver failure.

Lgacy

Gluck is grandmother to actress Stephanie Zimbalist.

Quotes

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars - because it is his natural characteristic - so the artist works
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul - the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers

References

Alma Gluck Wikipedia


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