Background
Singer, Jacques was born on May 9, 1917 in Przemysl, Poland. Son of Mark Eli and Rachela (Bach) Singer.
Singer, Jacques was born on May 9, 1917 in Przemysl, Poland. Son of Mark Eli and Rachela (Bach) Singer.
Student Curtis Institute Music, 1926. Graduate Juilliard Graduate School Music, 1931. Doctor of Music, Corpus Christi University, 1962.
Came to the United States, 1921, naturalized, 1931. Music director, conductor Dallas Symphony, 1937-1942, Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) Symphony, 1947-1951. Music director New York production Shakespeare and Shaw Cleopatras with Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh, 1952, Tel Aviv (Israel) Philharmonic, Haifa, 1953.
Conductor 1st symphony concert in Nazareth, 1953.
Music director, Corpus Christi, 1954. Guest conductor Mexico, Guatemala, also Indianapolis symphonies, 1956, Peru, 1957, Portugal, 1958.
Music. director Filharmonic de Buenos Aires, 1959, 60, Havana, 1959, Caracas, 1961, Florence, Italy, 1962, London Philharmonic, 1962, Portland Symphony Orchestra, from 1962. Conductor Columbia Sinfonica, 1966, Filharmonica de Chile, Santiago, 1966, London Royal Philharmonic, 1970, Congress of Strings, University of Southern California, 1970, Cincinnati, 1970, New Zealand British Columbia Symphony, New Zealand and Dublin, Ireland, 1971, Indiana U. Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfonica Venezuela, Honolulu Symphony, 1972, Filharmonia de Wroclaw, de Krakow, de Gdansk (all Poland), Sacramento Symphony, Orquestra Filarmonica de Lisboa (Portugal), 1973, Warsaw Philharmonic, Poznan Philharmonic, Lodz Philharmonic, 1975, also Louisville Philharmonic, Naumburg Orchestra, New York City, 1976-1978.
General music director, commander Oregon Symphony Orchestra, 1962-1973.
Professor Northern Illinois University, 1977-1980, conductor Northern Illinois U. Philharmonic, Portugal Festival, Lisbon, 1978.
Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member National Association American Composers and Condrs.
Married Leslie Wright, January 28, 1946. Children: Claude, Mark, Lori and Gregory (twins).