The Black contralto put European art music and African-American spirituals in parity — and in her art, paved the way for generations of singers... Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer ...

DANBURY — Highlighted behind the glass of Huntington Hall’s exhibit cases is a collection of costumes worn by local legend Marian Anderson across the decades as part of the Danbury Museum’s new ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Key events in the life ...

April 9, 1939: Philadelphia native and contralto Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. April 9, 2012: “The Lion King” becomes highest grossing Broadway show, ...

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 day before filming this conversation, I performed the Piano Concerto by pioneering African-American composer Florence Price with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its concert hall recently renamed ...

The Marian Anderson String Quartet, the first African American ensemble to win a major classical music competition, will be in residence at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from Wednesday, ...

When mezzo-soprano Ruby Hinds takes the stage Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's Communication Arts Theatre, the audience will experience a musical treat and a history lesson. Hinds will ...