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For the next 20 years he worked at a variety of "day jobs," painting whenever he had free time. Among other things, he worked as a baker, ski salesman, and commercial artist. From 1949-1953, he was a radio personality in New York City, where he had a weekly program, "Music From Alfred Zwiebel's Collection," on station WABF,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/pagesnfiles/logs_files/1950s/1952/52_10Oct/%5Bn%5D52-10-22-(Wed).pdf. |title=On the radio |website=www.jjonz.us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002121522/http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/pagesnfiles/logs_files/1950s/1952/52_10Oct/%5Bn%5D52-10-22-(Wed).pdf |archive-date=2011-10-02}}</ref> playing [[opera]] and [[classical music]] recordings from his own extensive collection (opera was another of his lifelong passions). He also occasionally wrote articles on music for publication.<ref>See, for example: Alfred Zwiebel, "Whatever Happened to Heldentenors?", ''MUSIC JOURNAL'' magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 7/October 1963, pp. 26-28.</ref> Two singers engaged at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in the 1950s and '60s, [[Lisa Della Casa]] and [[Anneliese Rothenberger]], studied painting with him while in New York.
Atlantis Verlag, Zürich, {{ISBN|3-7611-0474-X}}, p. 151: "As long as we lived in [[Forest Hills (Queens)|Forest Hills]], we socialized with a couple, both of whom were painters, Clara and Alfred Zwiebel. [They] painted in different styles, [she] in a more academic manner, [he] very impressionistically; we took a lively part in the discussions about this, and my wife often watched the prolific Alfred while he painted. ... She discovered painting; Clara and Alfred initiated her into the techniques, and she painted in every free minute. She was often urged to exhibit her pictures, but she declined." (The original German reads: "Solange wir in Forest Hills wohnten, verkehrten wir mit einem Malerehepaar, Clara und Alfred Zwiebel. [Sie] malten verschieden, [sie] eher akademisch, [er] ungestüm impressionistisch; wir beteiligten uns lebhaft an den Diskussionen darüber, und meine Frau sah oft dem produktivten Alfred bein Malen zu. ... Sie entdeckte das Malen; Clara und Alfred weihten sie ins Handwerkliche ein, sie malte in jeder freien Minute. Mehrmals wurde sie aufgefordert, ihre Bilder auszustellen, aber sie lehnte es ab.")</ref><ref>"Die schönsten 'Zwiebeln' hängen an der Wand" ("The most beautiful 'Zwiebels' are on the wall," [N.B.: a play on words, as "Zwiebel" in German can mean "flower bulb," and Mainau is an island famous for its floral gardens]), ''Mainau-Inselpost'' magazine, Nr. 1, April 1977, p. 6: "... We mean the exhibition of paintings by Alfred Zwiebel of New York in the Castle's Hall of Heraldry. From April 1st to May 8th, visitors to Mainau will be able to see paintings by this noted artist. Alfred Zwiebel, incidentally, was Anneliese Rothenberger's painting and drawing teacher when she was in New York for a protracted stay." (The original reads, "... Gemeint ist die Gemälde-Ausstellung des Künstlers Alfred Zwiebel aus New York im Wappensaal des Schlosses. Vom 1. April bis 8. Mai werden die Mainau-Besucher die Bilder des bekannten Malers sehen können. Alfred Zwiebel war übrigens der Mal- und Zeichenlehrer von Anneliese Rothenberger während eines längeren Amerika-Aufenthalts der Künstlerin.") A. Rothenberger later made a successful career as a painter after she retired from singing.</ref>
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