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Marian Anderson's account of her life is something like her well-known voice -- effortless, inspiring, and deeply moving. Like the voice, too, the book expresses its author's warm and reverent approach to living and to music. Miss Anderson's glorious contralto is one of the few great instruments of song within modern memory -- Toscanini has said that a voice like hers happens only once in a hundred years. Though she began singing as a mere child, in her church in Philadelphia, she came only slowly to know that she had this gift, as she loved to sing more than anything else. During her girlhood she began to be in demand in other churches, and the small feed she earned were more important than "the voice," for these enabled her to help her widowed mother and family. But the encouragement of others gradually made it plain that a career might be possible if she had the will to work and the fortitude to face the obstacles of the concert world. Years of arduous study followed, punctuated by many small singing engagements to earn money. Once she ventured too far ahead, making a premature debut in New York's Town Hall that was a critical fiasco. Characteristically, however, she returned, chastened, to the effort, and with an acute new awareness of what she must learn.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date1956
- ISBN 10 0670500119
- ISBN 13 9780670500116
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [The Story of Marian Anderson's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Arts: Includes original autographed photograph of Anderson.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Shelf wear to dj. In mylar. 3rd printing. Marian Anderson was an African American contralto from Philadelphia. She received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement, Kennedy Center Honros, and the NAACP Image Award. Anderson struggled against racial discrimination during this career. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) infamously refused to allow Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and President Roosevelt instead set up and outdoor concert on April 9, 1939, at the Lincoln Memorial steps on the National Mall. She sang before an integrated crowd of more than 75,000 people and a radio audience in the millions at this concert. Signed. Seller Inventory # 2402160052
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