Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt ... South Philadelphia who could superbly deliver Russian folk songs, classic German and French arias as well as Negro ...