Marian Anderson #1688

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Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American

contralto, best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939

on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Anderson was born

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined a junior church choir at the age of

six, and applied to an all-white music school after her graduation from high

school in 1921, but was turned away because she was black. The woman

working the admissions counter replied, "We don't take colored" when she

tried to apply. Consequently, she continued her singing studies with a private

teacher. She debuted at the New York Philharmonic on August 26, 1925 and

scored an immediate success, also with the critics. In 1928, she sang for the

first time at Carnegie Hall.Her reputation was further advanced by her tour

through Europe in the early 1930s where she did not encounter certain racial

prejudices she had experienced in America.

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