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Marian Anderson: Anchored in the Lord |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Susan Fegley Osmond |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,682 Words, 16,293 Characters |
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Arturo Toscanini said she had a voice "such as one hears once in a hundred years." But today, a century after her birth, Marian Anderson is remembered for far more than her lustrous, soulful contralto. Although a number of black singers of her own and previous generations had tried to pursue concert and operatic careers--some with notable success--it fell to this self-effacing, quietly determined, serenely dignified woman of profound faith to become the embodiment, in the public mind, of the plight and eventual triumph of a disenfranchised race and a manifestation of the noblest ideals of all humankind.
In 1939, although she had no desire to become either a symbol or a spokeswoman for a cause, she gave a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that became a landmark in the fight fo...
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...ing completely at ease with your faith and your art, so that it is impossible to separate what Aunt Marian is as a human being from what she is as an artist."
Additional Reading:
Marian Anderson, My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1956.Rosalyn Story, And So I Sing: African-American Divas of Opera and Concert, Warner Books, New York, 1990.
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