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Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust

Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust

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The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer-Polignac was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leon Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux to Prokofiev, Madame Jean Lanvin, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edith Wharton in her Paris salon. More importantly, she was responsible for developing a new genre: “Great music for a small space by up-and-coming composers” in the words...

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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

Great Barrington, MA, United States

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