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	Winnaretta Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Winnaretta Singer [1] (8 January 1865-26 November 1943), Princess Edmond de Polignac, was an important musical patron, lesbian, and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune.
		Her brother Paris Singer was a lover of Isadora Duncan and a developer of Palm Beach, Florida.
		Winnaretta de Polignac is described (amongst others by Violet Trefusis) to have few physical charms, though generally she was considered to have a formidable character and was both appealing and attractive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winnaretta_Singer (847 words)

	Prince Edmond de Polignac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		And the arrangement would have other benefits: Winnaretta was lesbian and not sexually interested in men at all, in fact her first marriage of five years was never consummated.
		Winnaretta became a patron in public musical circles, and was soon running an aristocratic salon in her renovated atelier.
		Proust received much of his musical education at Winnaretta's soirées, having fallen in love with one of their musical friends, Reynaldo Hahn, and Edmond's octatonic compositions were first heard at a charity event arranged by her for the benefit of an orphanage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Edmond_de_Polignac (1969 words)

	ipedia.com: Isaac Singer Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Singer was born in Utica, New York, the son of Adam Singer, a Saxon immigrant to America, and his first wife Ruth.
		Singer noted that the sewing machine would be more reliable if the shuttle moved in a straight line rather than a circle, with a straight rather than a curved needle.
		Another brother, Washington Singer, became a substantial donor to the University College of the South West of England, which later became the University of Exeter; one of the University's buildings is named in his honour.
	www.ipedia.com /isaac_singer.html (1602 words)

	H-France Reviews
		Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, the subject of a recent biography by Sylvia Kahan, was the twentieth child of the self-made American inventor of the Singer sewing machine, Isaac Merritt Singer.
		Yet, thanks to the Singer fortune, a propitious marriage to Prince Edmond de Polignac, and her discerning ear for nascent talent, Winnaretta would ultimately establish a reputation for herself in mondain and avant-garde circles as the grande mécène of musical modernism.
		Winnaretta Singer-Polignac was a fascinating figure who, as Kahan makes clear, left an indelible mark on the musical avant-garde from the 1890s to the outbreak of World War II.
	www.h-france.net /vol4reviews/mansker.html (1854 words)

	Isaac Merritt Singer, Singer Sewing Machines, Singer presidents
		Singer saw his wife labouring over the tedious process of sewing and seaming with her own hands, and simply out of his love for her he devised the sewing machine in order to save her from unnecessary labour.
		Singer patented several new sewing machine prototypes and innovations, but most of his prodigious energy was spent designing and building enormous homes and spectacular carriages, seducing women, and fathering children.
		Singer and his former partner Clark had parted on frosty terms, and Singer stipulated that Clark could not succeed him as president of Singer while he was still alive.
	www.singermemories.com /cast-of-characters.html (2258 words)

	Isaac Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Singer and Mary Ann returned to Baltimore, presenting themselves as married, and their son Isaac was born in 1837.
		Singer went to Boston in 1850 to set the machine up at the shop of Orson C. Phelps, where Lerow and Blodgett sewing machines were being constructed.
		Winnaretta Singer married Prince Louis de Scey-Monbéliard, and her sister Isabelle married Elie, duc Decazes.
	www.termsdefined.net /is/isaac-singer.html (1622 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music's Modern Verse: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I'm sure there were many things about Winnaretta Singer that were politically and morally admirable; but I find it hard to believe that a Princesse operating in such a Right-wing institution as the postwar Parisian haute culture would be this thoroughly innocent of the faults that were so prevalent among her fellow aristocrats.
		Singer did lead a fascinating life in Paris during the belle epoque, but she seems to be one of those people who were famous simply because of the artists they knew and not because they ever truly contributed anything.
		Singer appears like one of those folks who happen to be in the right place at the right time and became famous for all the wrong reasons.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1580461336 (1364 words)

	Singer heiress sewed wild oats in Paris music scene
		Singer contributed heavily to l’Opéra de Paris, Les Ballets Russes and l’Orchestre Symphonique de Paris.
		Singer entertained such people as Clive Bell (Virginia Woolf’s brother-in-law), Claudette Colbert (a luncheon guest) and Percy Grainger (who dedicated some folksong scores to her).
		While involved with Olga de Meyer, Winnaretta began an affair in 1905 with Beatrice Romaine Goddard (who married John Ellington Brooks, a pianist who had been Somerset Maugham’s lover, and later had love affairs with Lord Alfred Douglas — who thought John Masefield’s “The Everlasting Mercy” was “nine-tenths sheer filth”) and poet Gabriele d’Annunzio.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_60/singerheiresssewed.html (548 words)

	Estate - Isaac Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Singer) had her husband arrested for domestic violence.Singer was let out on bond and, disgraced, fled for London, taking Mary McGonigal with him.In the aftermath, another of Isaacs families was discovered: he had a "wife" Mary Eastwood Walters and daughter Alice Eastwood in Lower Manhattan, who both adopted the surname "Merritt".
		Singer no longer actively participated in the firms day-to-day management, but served as a member of the Board of Trustees and was a major stockholder.He now began to increase his new family: he would eventually have six children with his wife Isabella.
		A brother to Winnaretta and Isabelle, Paris Singer, had a child by Isadora Duncan.Another brother, Washington Singer, became a substantial donor to the University College of the South West of England, which later became the University of Exeter; one of the Universitys buildings is named in his honour.
	vikramasila.org /397135_isaac-singer_1125313951estatesciencefictionb... (1454 words)

	Satie and the Sewing Machine
		In 1875 Singer died and left fifteen million dollars to be divided among his wives and children (or most of them, anyway).
		Princess Winnaretta obviously had no children, but when her sister Isabelle-Blanche committed suicide, Winnaretta took charge of her daughter, Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksbierg, and Margeurite’s 1910 marriage to Prince Jean Amédée Marie Anatole de Broglie (also reputed to be gay) produced three more princesses.
		Isaac's widow Isabella (Winnaretta's mother) was Bartholdi's model for the Statue of Liberty.
	www.idiocentrism.com /princess.htm (671 words)

	Winnaretta Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Winnaretta Singer (8 January 1865-26 November 1943), Princess Edmond de Polignac, was an important musical patron (patron: Someone who supports or champions something), lesbian (lesbian: A resident of Lesbos), and heir to the Singer sewing machine (Singer sewing machine: singer corporation was established as i.m....
		Winnaretta married, at the age of 22, Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard.
		Winnaretta de Polignac is described (amongst others by Violet Trefusis (Violet Trefusis: violet trefusis (june 6, 1894 - march 9 1972) was an english writer...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/winnaretta_singer (677 words)

	Winnaretta Singer, Debussy, Satie, Stravinski, Manuel de Falla.
		Singer's daughter Winnaretta, Princesse de Polignac, was an accomplished painter and pianist who became one of France's best-known and most successful music patrons (she dedicated a substantial part of her fortune to supporting modernist music.)
		Winnaretta is most famous for the original music she commissioned for her Parisian salon from musicians like Debussy, Satie, Stravinski, and Manuel de Falla.
		Singer advertising on the cards, at first quite discreet, became increasingly overt as the years went by.
	www.singermemories.com /secret.html (519 words)

	Encyclopedia entries starting with SIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A lead singer is one who sings the primary vocals of a song, as opposed to a backup singer who sings backup vocals to a song or harmonies to th..
		Singer was an automobile marque used by the Rootes Group of the United Kingdom.
		Singer Corporation was established as I.M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Issac Merritt Singer.
	encycl.opentopia.com /S/SI/SIN (10389 words)

	A Crown of Feathers - Isaac Bashevis Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978.Isaac Bashevis Singer was the son of a rabbi and brother of the novelist Israel Joshua Singer.
		Singer wrote nearly all his work in Yiddish.Singer gave his birth date as July 14, 1904, which is most likely wrong.
		Isaac Bashevis Singer Uri Shulevitz - The Golem - 0374427461
	vikramasila.org /396989_isaac-bashevis-singer_0374516243acrownoffeat... (487 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Winnaretta Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Princesse de Polignac, born Winnaretta Singer, was the 20th child of sewing machine magnate Isaac Merritt Singer; her mother was Paris-born Isabelle Boyer, who, according to legend, was the model for Frédéric Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty.
		But after the death of her father, she inherited a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, making her a millionaire at the age of eighteen.
		Behind the façade of her marriage, Winnaretta engaged in lesbian affairs with some of the most famous frequenters of Left Bank circles.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/bios3/sing2.html (277 words)

	Winnaretta Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Winnaretta Singer (8 January 1865-26 November 1943), Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		And her brother Paris Singer was a lover of Isadora Duncan (United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (1878-1927))
		Winnaretta de Polignac is described (amongst others by Violet Trefusis (Violet trefusis (june 6, 1894 - march 9 1972) was an english writer and socialite....)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/winnaretta_singer (2103 words)

	Soiree Parisienne
		If someone tried to sell you on something billed as "An Evening with Winnaretta Singer" you might not be curious.
		Miss Singer, who was the 20th child of sewing machine mogul Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-1875) and inherited $1 million when he died, married a French prince, Edmond de Polignac.
		It wasn't a love match -- Winnaretta found romance elsewhere as did the groom -- but it was useful.
	www.csinews.net /IntheNews/110903kahan.htm (348 words)

	Biography for: Edmond Polignac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1893 he married Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943), a friend of Jacques-Emile Blanche.
		She was the daughter of Isaac Merritt Singer, the sewing machine industrialist and Isabelle Singer, née Boyer, and the sister of Isabelle-Blanche, Duchesse Decazes de Glucksbierg.
		In 1889, his name appeared on a list of invited guests to a dinner in honour of JW at the Criterion, London (transcription">#05635).
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Polig_Pr.htm (128 words)

	The world's top isaac singer websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Winnaretta Singer married Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard, and after annulment of this marriage, married to Prince Edmond de Polignac.
		As a lesbian she became involved with Violet Trefusis.
		ISAAC MERRITT SINGER, the Biografie of I. Singer
	dirs.org /dir-wiki.cfm/isaac_singer (1572 words)

	FMF - Bibliography
		The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to her inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune.
		Living in Paris, she quickly became active in musical life there, holding the premier avant-garde musical salon in her home from 1888 to 1939.
		A Life of Winnaretta Singer Princese de Polignac.
	www.fmf.ch /english/Bibliography.html (201 words)

	Sylvia Kahan
		One of the era’s most influential and colorful personalities, the Princesse Edmond de Polignac, a powerful and passionate lover of the arts, used her colossal fortune to benefit the 20th century world of music, letters, science, and culture, and her influences on these domains remain incalculable.
		Princesse Edmond de Polignac, born Winnaretta Singer, was the 20th child of sewing machine magnate Isaac Merritt Singer; her mother was Paris-born Isabelle Boyer, who, according to legend, was the model for Frédéric Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty.
		Her book, Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (University of Rochester Press) has been recently released.
	www.csinews.net /NewsReleases/sylviakahan.htm (1119 words)

	MUSIC Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center: Sylvia Kahan
		She has written on women’s roles as music patrons in Paris and New York, Proust and music, Nadia Boulanger, French opera, and the history of octatonicism.
		Her book, Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (University of Rochester Press, 2003) was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as an “important new study.” A second book, Edmond de Polignac and the Discovery of Octatonicism, is forthcoming from University of Rochester Press.
		Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 2003), 576 pp.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /Music/faculty/kahan.html (440 words)

	UCB Libraries \| AMRC \| Conferences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the Schola’s professional singers she has participated in numerous festivals in Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, and Canada and has made a series of award-winning CDs on the Herald label.
		Her book, Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (University of Rochester Press) was hailed by the London Times as a "superb new biography." Sylvia Kahan serves on the doctoral piano faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center, and is the Chair of the Department of Performing and Creative Arts, CUNY.
		Avid Williams, singer, coach, and conductor, is a graduate of the Boys Choir of Harlem and Queens College (CUNY).
	ucblibraries.colorado.edu /amrc/conferencebios.htm (4935 words)

	Music’s Modern Muse – Book Review
		This is how Sylvia Kahan starts this biography of a unique patron of the arts who may or may not have been sexually abused as a child by a stepfather but who was aware of her “nascent attraction to women”, not men.
		Romaine fell in love with Winnaretta at first sight, but then she also loved the Italian virtuoso Renata Borgatti.
		Many in the aristocracy assumed the Singers had Jewish origins even though they were brought up, “more or less, in the Protestant faith”.
	www.galha.org /glh/232/kahan.html (437 words)

	Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse De Polignac:1580461336:Kahan, Sylvia:eCampus.com
		Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse De Polignac:1580461336:Kahan, Sylvia:eCampus.com
		The reader's complaint might be that it stopped after 550 pages and has not yet been made into a movie." THE VILLAGER The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to her inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune.
		Her 1893 marriage to Prince Edmond de Polignac, an amateur composer, brought her into contact with the most elite strata of French society.
	www.ecampus.com /book/1580461336 (209 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Sylvia Kahan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		at the College of Staten Island, Sylvia Kahan, narrator and pianist, presents this world premiere performance based on her recently released book Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, published by University of Rochester Press.
		Sylvia Kahan earned degrees in Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Michigan State University, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and continued her piano studies with distinguished artist Richard Goode.
		Sylvia Kahan, a pianist and musicologist specializing in French music and culture, is the author of Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Kahan_Sylvia_255305326.htm (488 words)

	Frenchculture.org \| Music Books Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This lively book takes us back to the context of the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi¹s Orfeo in 1607, Handel¹s Messiah in 1742, Beethoven¹s Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz¹s Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky¹s Sacre du printemps in 1913.
		A thorough and fascinating biography of American-born millionaire Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) who used her fortune to benefit the arts, science, and letters in France and America.
		Opera singer Arral began her career at the Opéra Comique in Paris, where Massenet added a small part to Manon for her, travelled the world and ended her career in New Jersey.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/music (847 words)

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