Voice of a Century The Life and Artistry of Marian Anderson

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Voice of a Century The Life and Artistry of Marian Anderson | 42.46 MB

Title: Voice of a Century The Life and Artistry of Marian Anderson
Author: Anthony Tommasini, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Category: Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography & Memoir
Language: English | 346 Pages | ISBN: 9780593652688

Description:
From the New York Times's former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriers
The night before Marian Anderson performed her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial, she called her manager with grave doubts. What had started as a plan to sing a recital in Washington's largest concert hall had turned, she feared, into a protest rally after she was barred from appearing on the venue's whites-only stage. The next day a crowd of seventy-five thousand flocked there to see her perform on Easter Sunday, 1939, before the monument of freedom itself. This was a major triumph for racial justice, but Anderson worried it would overshadow the rest of her inimitable career.
In this rich new portrait, Anthony Tommasini brings his decades of musical expertise to bear upon Anderson's artistry, the journey of her life, and conversations about her legacy. After her...

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