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Rosamonde Safier
Rosamonde (Rhody or Rody) Elsie Safier (1912–1992), ''mariée'' Marks, was a Tin Pan Alley composer, whose songs were promoted by Rudy Vallée and George Gershwin. Her most prominently performed songs, also arranged for band, were “Blue Lady,” “Swing Low Sweet Harriet," and “Because I’ve Known Love.” Musical collaborators included William Howard Schuman and Lenore Oppenheimer ''mariée'' Hershey.〔Safier Marks, Rosamonde. (''Papers, 1930–1986 (bulk 1930–1934)'' ). N.d. MS/TS. Lila Acheson Wallace Library at the Juilliard School, New York, NY.〕〔''Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3: Musical Compositions'': Volume 35, Part 2 – Last Half of 1940. United States Government Printing Office: Washington, 1941. (page 1388 )〕
== Biography and musical career ==
Born to Joseph and Sarah Goldberg Safier in Monessen, PA, on September 9, 1912, the youngest of five siblings, “Rody” Safier composed twenty songs while still in high school, and played two of them for Helen Kane in the Stanley Theater. She wrote to George Gershwin, “People here at home think that I have talent. But I’m not sure whether it is big or small. If I ever come to New York, would you hear my songs and tell me the truth?” Gershwin wrote back, “Yes.”
After high school, Safier moved to New York City, where she attended the Institute for Musical Art (now known as the Juilliard School). During that time she contacted Gershwin, who invited her to his apartment for an audition and listened to her music for over an hour. One of the songs she played for him was “Blue Lady,” which he then played back to her. Before the year (1931) was out, just-turned-19-year-old Safier’s “Blue Lady” had been published by Harms and sung by Rudy Vallée on his live radio show, The Fleischmann Hour.
Also an accomplished pianist and accompanist, Safier performed her classical composition, “Strange Fantasie,” in Carnegie Hall in 1934. Her professional career culminated with a six-year stint (1943–1949) as audition secretary at New York radio station, WOR. Married to New York architect Irving Philip Marks in 1947 in Temple Emanu-El, Safier eventually left the music world when they had their only child, Joel Howard Marks. Predeceased by her husband, Safier Marks died in New York City on December 7, 1992, and is buried in Versailles, PA.
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