The following is extracted from Volume II of the 1986 edition of South African Music Encyclopedia (J.P. Malan, ISBN 0 19 570285 9)
JEAN GLUCKMAN, mezzo-soprano, born 18 November 1909 in Randfontein, died ?
After graduating BA at the Witwatersrand University in 1929, with History, English, and the History of Music as her main subjects, Jean Gluckman studied at the Royal Academy of Music (1931-34), where she obtained the LRAM and won the Parepa Rosa scholarship for overseas students. She is also an Associate of the Royal College of Music, and holds the LTCL diploma.
An experienced opera singer, Jean has sung main roles since the early Johannesburg productions of John Connell in works such as Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Madama Butterfly, Il Trovatore, The Consul, Hänsel und Gretel, Faust, and Die Fledermaus. It is, however, for interpretations of art songs in concerts and broadcasts that Jean Gluckman was appreciated in South Africa. For the SABC Transcription Library she has recorded works by South African composers in both Afrikaans and English, notably the song cycle by Joyce Loots, The Golden Threshold (1942). During 1966 she was engaged by PACT for a concert tour of the Transvaal with Lessie Samuel, Gerrit Bon (jr) and Jos de Groen.
