Gluck
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Alma Reba FiersohnMme. Efrem Zimbalist, 1884–1938, U.S. operatic soprano, born in Romania.
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Christoph Willibald von 1714–87, German operatic composer.
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Louise, 1943–2023, U.S. poet: Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.
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At 38 years old, Jonathan Gluck was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer—and told he might have as little as 18 months to live.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The Weisenbergs’ attorneys, Benjamin Gluck and Vicki Podberesky, had previously denied all wrongdoing by their clients.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
In 2003 Jonathan Gluck was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, essentially a bone marrow cancer.
From Slate • May 2, 2025
“I meant it as a bit of gallows humor, but he answered by essentially saying, Actually, sort of,” Gluck, a journalist, writes in his forthcoming memoir, An Exercise in Uncertainty.
From Slate • May 2, 2025
Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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