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Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac.(Book Review)
Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. By Sylvia Kahan. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. (Eastman Studies in Music.) [xxii, 547 p. ISBN 1-58046-133-6. $49.95.] Appendices, index, bibliography.
Attending concerts in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress as a college student made me at least unconsciously aware of women as music patrons, so decades later perhaps Coolidge's example inspired my commissioning a piece--actually, I could afford only an arrangement--from a composer I knew, played on a regularly-scheduled chamber music concert. My small experience as a patron of composers ...
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