Summary Information
- Repository
- Sarah Lawrence College Archives
- Creator
- Singer, Andre, composer
- Title
- Andre Singer Photograph Collection
- ID
- RG 12.1.7
- Date [inclusive]
- undated, circa 1910-1993
- Extent
- 0.25 linear feet 1 half box
- Language
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Sarah Lawrence College Archives January 2001
Sarah Lawrence College Archives1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY, 10708
914-395-2480
archives@sarahlawrence.edu
Revision Description
Finding Aid entered in Archivists' Toolkit by Elijah Black. July 2012
Terms of use
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Acquisition note
Collection of photographs donated by George and Beth Wolf in 2000.
Biographical note
Andre Singer was born November 1, 1907 in Hungary to Dr. Simun and Elsa Singer. He studied music composition in Vienna at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Akademie fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien), graduating in 1927. Andre furthered his studies in piano at the Vienna Professional School of Higher Learning of Music and Performing Arts (Fach Hochscule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien) from 1927 through 1931 as a student of Paul Weingarten. In the early 1930s, Singer co-founded the Literatur am Naschmarkt cabaret in Vienna. Under the alias “Otto Andreas,” Singer composed works for the cabaret which were often censored for their anti-Nazi content. In the mid 1930s, Andre served in the Royal Army of Yugoslavia at the Officer’s School in Sarajevo. From 1936 through 1938, he worked in Paris and London as an accompanist and solo pianist. While in Paris, Singer met Lucie Ros, whom he married on August 2, 1938, the day before they immigrated to the United States.
Andre and Lucie took up residence in New York, where Andre procured employment as an accompanist and composer. From 1939 through 1942, he worked as the music director of the Chekhov Theatre Studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut. In 1944, Andre was drafted into the U.S. Army and served overseas in Noumea, New Caledonia until his honorable discharge in 1945. In 1946, Andre Singer joined the Sarah Lawrence College music faculty, where he taught until his retirement in 1977. In addition to teaching music theory, composition, and piano at Sarah Lawrence, Singer continued to compose across a wide spectrum of musical forms. Andre Singer died on November 1, 1996.
Scope and Contents note
The Andre Singer photograph collection consists of two folders of photographs from Singer’s personal collection. Beginning around 1910, the collection documents Singer’s life from early childhood to old age. Included are pictures of Singer’s parents and grandparents in Europe as well as photos of Singer in the Yugoslav Army and U.S. army.
Related Materials
See also
Andre Singer Collection.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- Sarah Lawrence College. Faculty.
- Sarah Lawrence College. Music Department.
Genre(s)
- Photographs
Personal Name(s)
- Haines, Edmund
- Kupferman, Meyer, 1926-2003
Subject(s)
- Immigrants - United States.
- Jews - United States.
- United States. Army
- Yugoslavia. Jugoslovenska narodna armija
Cataloging status
Uploaded to OCLC March 2013 OCLC # 830387208
Collection Inventory
| Title | Half-box | Folder | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andre Singer 1910 or 1911 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Andre’s Brother (Nicola), Andre, Andre’s Mother 1911 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Mother, Nicola, Andre, Grandfather, Grandmother, Father (Postcard—vacationing in Abbazia, then Italy, now Slovenia) 1908-1909 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Andre and Maid - Postcard 1912 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Andre’s Mother and Andre next to her, other unidentified - Postcard addressed to Andre’s Father in Austria on vacation n.d. | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
Andre’s Grandfather n.d. | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
Andre’s Grandmother (two photos) n.d. | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
Andre's Mother Grandmother and two Aunts n.d. | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
Andre's Mother n.d. | 1 | 1 | 9 | |
Andre’s Mother (three photos) n.d. | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
Andre’s Mother & Father n.d. | 1 | 1 | 11 | |
Nicola and first wife; Nicola (two photos) n.d. | 1 | 1 | 12 | |
Andre (three photos) n.d. 1929; 1929 | 1 | 1 | 13 | |
Nicola and first wife; Nicola (two photos) n.d. 1931; 1931; 1932 | 1 | 1 | 14 | |
Andre as Officers Candidate in Royal Yugoslav Army (1934), Sarajevo (1934), Andre (1935) n.d. 1931; 1931; 1932 | 1 | 1 | 15 | |
Andre (three photos) n.d. | 1 | 1 | 16 | |
Paul Weingarten (two photos) n.d. | 1 | 1 | 17 | |
Literatur Am Naschmarkt (Vienna) 1936 | 1 | 1 | 18 | |
Literatur Am Naschmarkt (Vienna) 1936 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |
“To Otto Andreas, In Appreciation” Belle Dedjah December 31, 1937 | 1 | 1 | 20 | |
Michael Chekov n.d. | 1 | 1 | 21 | |
Michael Chekov 1941-1942 | 1 | 1 | 22 | |
“For My Dear Andre and Lucy” Michael Chekov August 28, 1943 | 1 | 1 | 23 | |
Burgess Meredith (Chekov Studio) 1940 | 1 | 1 | 24 | |
Beatrice Straight and E. Barrie (Lear) 1940 | 1 | 1 | 25 | |
Ford Rainey (Lear) 1940 | 1 | 1 | 26 | |
Andre and Lucy, second and third from right, Nicola and Margot (second wife) (bottom three photos) n.d. | 1 | 1 | 27 | |
Lucy - Ridgefield (second from left) | 1 | 1 | 28 | |
“Private Andre Singer, former concert pianist of New York City, now with the Finance Office, in New Caledonia, is shown in studio of AES Radio Station in Noumea, New Caledonia during a broadcast. At the microphone is AES announcer Private James Lake.” | 1 | 1 | 29 | |
Andre in the U.S. Army (five photos) 1944 | 1 | 1 | 30 | |
Andre in the U.S. Army (three photos) n.d. | 1 | 2 | 31 | |
Andre in the U.S. Army (five photos) n.d. | 1 | 2 | 32 | |
Andre in the U.S. Army (seven photos) n.d. | 1 | 2 | 33 | |
Andre (two photos) n.d. | 1 | 2 | 34 | |
Andre (two photos) n.d. | 1 | 2 | 35 | |
Alcottiana School of Music, University of Illinois January 14-17, 1953 | 1 | 2 | 36 | |
Andre and Nadia Boulanger 1960s | 1 | 2 | 37 | |
Ed Haines and Andre 1960s | 1 | 2 | 38 | |
Meyer Kupferman, Andre, and Ed Haines 1963 | 1 | 2 | 39 | |
Andre and Horace Kallen at Cape Cod; Andre at home; Andre and Nicola vacationing in Northern Westchester n.d. | 1 | 2 | 40 | |
Andre (two photos) 1975 | 1 | 2 | 41 | |
Andre at Wolf apartment, New York City (two photos), Andre, Nicola and Margot vacationing in Northern Westchester 1978-1979 | 1 | 2 | 42 | |
Andre and George Wolf, Andre at Wolf apartment in New York City 1980 | 1 | 2 | 43 | |
Andre at Wolf apartment in New York City (two photos) 1980 | 1 | 2 | 44 | |
Andre (two photos) 1980's | 1 | 2 | 45 | |
Andre (three photos) 1980's | 1 | 2 | 46 | |
Andre at Cape Cod two photos, Andre at Parnassus Bookstore 1983 | 1 | 2 | 47 | |
Andre at Cape Cod (three photos) 1983 | 1 | 2 | 48 | |
Andre playing chess at Cape Cod (two photos) 1983 | 1 | 2 | 49 | |
Andre at Cape Cod (three photos) 1986 | 1 | 2 | 50 | |
Andre at Cape Cod (three photos) 1986 | 1 | 2 | 51 | |
Andre at Cape Cod (three photos) 1986 | 1 | 2 | 52 | |
Party for Andre at Sarah Lawrence College, President’s House; photo 1 Andre with former students (l-r): Joyce Lindorff ’72, Beth Wolf ’51, Susan Bingham ’66, Dorothy Belford ’76, Lucy Rosenfeld ’60, Julie Sturges ’48, & Anita Gordon ’58; photo 2 Andre; photo 3 Lanone Davenport, Sheila Schonbaum, Andre, David Lindorff ’71, & Joyce Lindorff ‘72 1987 | 1 | 2 | 53 | |
Andre at Cape Cod (two photos) 1988, 1989-1990 | 1 | 2 | 54 | |
Andre and Nicola; Andre, Nicola, and Margot 1992 | 1 | 2 | 55 | |
Andre; Andre 1992-1993 | 1 | 2 | 56 | |
Andre’s room at the Williams Residence 1993 | 1 | 2 | 57 | |
Andre’s home in Nyack (three photos) n.d. | 1 | 2 | 58 | |
Andre’s home in Nyack (three photos) n.d. | 1 | 2 | 59 | |
Berenice Lipson-Gruzen, friend 1971 | 1 | 2 | 60 | |