Julliard-trained Bob Gluck is an accomplished composer, religious leader, and academician. He is the author of two books published by the University of Chicago Press, You'll Know When You Get There: ...
When Mozart sat down in 1778 to write a symphony for the Paris orchestra, he had a lot of things working against him: The fame of Gluck, whose opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” was still wildly popular. The ...
The 2007 production, sung in the original French, has returned this month with the same starry cast of singers in principal roles -- mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (Iphig nie), tenor Placido Domingo ...
With Donald Macleod. Remembered today as a composer who reformed the narrow conventions of Italian and French opera, Gluck was a fascinatingly unique composer. He deliberately stood aloof from any ...
In May of 1774, 15 years before the French Revolution, the 18-year-old Marie Antoinette ascended the throne as queen of France. Less than a month before that, German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck ...
Apart from Orfeo ed Euridice – or rather its Housewives’ Choice favourite “Che faro?”, as sung by Kathleen Ferrier – nothing by Gluck has ever been widely popular and he will doubtless always remain a ...
HOHENFELS, Germany -- Hohenfels Military Community members James and Patricia Hannon joined in the 300th birthday celebration of German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, recently, as part of an ...
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of one of his operatic favourites, Christoph Willibald Gluck. Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer Of The Week, ...
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