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Jacques Singer (notes)

Singer's name

 * Symphony Conductor Is Spiewakowski


 * The flyleaf in a book sent from New Jersey to Jacques Singer, new conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, disclosed the real name of the local maestro. It is Kuba (Zdziszek) Wacław Śpiewakowski. The Spiewakowski is Polish for the English word "singer."


 * Mr. Singer, born in Galicia or Austrian Poland, said that his family Anglicized the name before they realized how much Spiewakowski sounds like Stokowski. As for his first name the Jacques is a professional refinement of Jack, by which he is known in this country. He started being Jacques when he made his debut as a violinist in Town Hall, New York, at the age of 15.


 * "I have worn Jacques Singer as a label since I was 15 years old, so I guess I am he and he is I," Mr. Singer commented.


 * Editors, compositors and proofreaders of Dallas newspapers thank Mr. Singer for dropping the Spiewakowski.


 * "Symphony Conductor Is Spiewakowski," Dallas Morning News, December 23, 1937, p. 10


 * Notes
 * Śpiewak is Polish for "Singer." The suffix "owski" has a possessive meaning (i.e., :Śpiewakowski" translates to "of the Śpiewak family"). Kuba is a Polish diminutive of Jakub.

Town Hall debut

 * Town Hall debut

Addresses

 * 1922: 14 Newark Avenue, Jersey City
 * Meyer is listed as a violin teacher
 * Rose if wife

Other violin instructors
Singer, before attending Curtis, studied violin with Jacob Mestechkin (1880–1953), former assistent to Leopold Auer

Music criticisms

 * Vol. 51; New York: January 1, 1925 – January 22, 1926


 * Vol. 42; Boston: December 20, 1925 – September 30, 1926


 * Vol. 48;

Early violin performances

 * Moiscel Agranov, pianist and composer, Jacques Singer, violinist, gave a joint recital January 11, 1930, in the ballroom of the Park Lane Hotel. The recital was sponsored by the New History Society. The program featured two of Agranov's compositions.
 * Mendelssohn, Concerto
 * Beethoven, Variations in C minor, arranged by Agranov
 * Chopin, ""Revolutionary Etude"
 * Gluck, "Melodie," arranged by Fritz Kreisler
 * Grieg, Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 (one movement)

New works performed by the Dallas Symphony
In collaboration with Carlos Chávez and the U.S. State Department, in an effort to warm relations with Mexico, Singer led a series of Goodwill concerts during the 1941-1942 season with the Dallas Symphony in a series of concerts feather a young Mexican soprano and three composers. North American debuts
 * José Rolón, Zapotlán (North American debut, Dallas Symphony, December 7, 1941)
 * Daniel Ayala Pérez, North American premiere with the DSO, Singer conducting, Panoramas de México, (suite), November 16 and 17, 1941
 * Julián Carrillo


 * Singer: Irma González (es), dubuted with DSO December 7 & 8, 1941, Singer conducting
 * "O, hätt' ich Jubals Harf'" from Handel's oratorio, Joshua (December 7, only)
 * Bach's Coffee Cantana (December 8, only)
 * "Voi Che Sapete" from Mozart's opera, The Marriage of Figaro
 *  Then she sang, in a North American premieres
 * Manuel Ponce's "Aleluya"
 * Silvestre Revueltas' "Siete Canciones Infantiles"

The Attack on Pearl Harbor began 7:48 Hawaiian Time, December 7, 1941 (in 1941, Hawaiian time was a half-hour difference from most other time zones); 18:13 GMT; 12:13  Dallas time.


 * During one of Singer's visits to Mexico City to tour, hold conferences on music, meet composers and performing artists, and audition composers and performers to introduce in Dallas, the artist José Clemente Orozco drew three portraits of Singer. Singer also visited Guadalajara to interview artists with the assistance of Professor Ramón Serrato of the Conservatorio de Guadalajara.


 * Vol. 18, No. 24, December 15, 1941, Newsweek: Picture of Jacques Singer and Irma González and gave an account of the Dallas Symphony's hands-across-border concert of December 7, 1941, her first of two appearances with the orchestra. The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred the morning of December 7, 1941.

Other guest conduction
January 26, 1958, Singer conducted the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra (ru) (Orquesta Filarmónica de la Habana).
 * 1) Paul Csonka Cubanese Violin Concerto No. 2, violin soloist was Ángel Reyes, Chairman of the Northwestern University School of Music
 * 2) Sibelius Symphony No. 1
 * 3) Works by Ernest Chausson

Discography
Jacques Singer conducting the Orquesta de las Américas, featuring violinist Ruggiero Ricci.

Ruggiero Ricci; Lalo

Fantaisie Norvégienne in A Major  Allegretto non troppo Andante Allegro Orchestra of the Americas, Singer, conductor Concerto Russe in G Minor, Op. 29  Prelude-Allegro (Andante) <li>Chanto Russe (Lento)</li> <li>Intermezzo (Allegro non troppo)</li> <li>Introduction - Chanto Russe (Andante)</li></ol> Orchestra of the Americas, Singer, conductor</ol> <li>Concerto in F Major, Op. 20</li> <ol type="I" start="1"> <li>Andante</li> <li>Andantino (Romance)</li> <li>Allegro con fuoco</li></ol> Orchestra of the Americas, Singer, conductor</ol> <li>Guitare In B Minor, Op. 28

Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

T Woytowicz, conductor</li></ol> Ruggiero Ricci, violin

Édouard Lalo, composer

One-Eleven, Ltd. (Hong Kong)

P.O. Box 92147, TST

Kowloon, Hong Kong

EPR-95040 (catalog no.) (CD)

(EPR = Essential Performance Reference)

(released July 1, 1997)

Artist management
In 1974, Jacques Singer was represented by Hurok Concerts, Inc. Sol Hurok, the name principal, died in 1974.