Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust
Mahaiwe 14 Castle St, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesThe 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: […]