Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century, once performed in the UN's gilded General Assembly ...

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 ...

She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first African American artist ...

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall will be renamed in honor of legendary vocalist Marian Anderson, a classical and spiritual music vocalist known for crossing racial and artistic boundaries.

At Salzburg, backdropped by magical mountains, where Austria’s great musical festivals were held before the war, and where he first heard Marian Anderson sing, Arturo Toscanini cried ...

The Marian Anderson Historical Society and Museum will reopen with a series of celebratory events, culminating with a Reopening Gala in March at the Historic Wanamaker Building Crystal Tea Ball Room.

SEYMOUR – Connecticut historian John Cilio will deliver a free, in-person presentation, "Marian Anderson’s Inspiring Journey of Music & Civil ...