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	Biography of Marian Anderson: singer
		Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Marian's father died when she was a child and her mother worked as a cleaning woman and laundress to support the family.
		Marian Anderson died in 1993 at the age of ninety-six.
	txtx.essortment.com /biographyofmar_rgtl.htm (744 words)

	Marian Anderson: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Marian Anderson died in 1993 at her nephew's home in Portland, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Marian anderson: the lincoln memorial concert is a 1939 documentary film which documents a concert performance by african american opera singer...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/marian_anderson.htm (1105 words)

	Marian Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1993, Anderson died of natural causes at the age of 96 in Portland, Oregon at the home of her nephew, the conductor James DePreist.
		On January 27, 2005, a commemorative U.S. postage stamp honored Marian Anderson with her image on the 37¢ issue as part of the Black Heritage series.
		Anderson is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marian_Anderson (533 words)

	Bureau of the Public Debt : $5,000 I Bond - Marian Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marian Anderson was a world-renowned contralto with a vocal mastery from Bach and Schubert to Verdi and spirituals.
		Marian Anderson was loved and admired throughout the world as a great artist whose dignity in the face of discrimination opened doors for the many African-American artists now performing in concert halls and opera houses worldwide.
		Marian Anderson was born and raised in Philadelphia.
	www.publicdebt.ustreas.gov /sav/sbiander.htm (402 words)

	A Photo Essay on Marian Anderson and Her Lincoln Memorial Concert
		Anderson sang the national anthem at the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957, and between 14 September and 2 December of that year she traveled 39,000 miles in Asia, performing twenty-four concerts under the auspices of the American National Theater and Academy and the U.S. State Department.
		Anderson's papers and memorabilia are housed at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Marian Anderson is greeted by Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, at the Lincoln Memorial.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/taggard/anderson.htm (2452 words)

	Marian Anderson (Contralto) - Short Biography
		Most Americans best remember Marian Anderson for her conscience-grabbing concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939 after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall, an arena that, from 1935 to 1952, opened its doors to white artists only.
		At the age of six, Anderson sang in the choir of the Union Baptist Church, where she became known as "baby contralto." Despite her sporadic musical education, the unique sound and extraordinary range of her voice continued to impress listeners by the time she turned sixteen.
		Marian Anderson spent her retirement on a 155-acre farm in Danbury, Connecticut until she moved in with her nephew, Oregon Symphony music director James DePriest in 1992.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Anderson-Marian.htm (620 words)

	Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Marian Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a celebrated opera singer Marian Anderson was used to attracting public attention for her singing, but ironically it was her inability to sing that placed her at the center of great controversy and drew the attention of one of the most famous women of her time, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
		Anderson wanted to give a performance at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., but was told by the manager that she could not use the hall because of a prior engagement.
		Anderson gave a concert on April 9, 1939, Easter Day, at the base of the Lincoln Memorial and the concert was broadcast across the country.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /tmirhfee.html (1008 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7895, Marian Anderson, Volume 2 - Booklet Note
		Anderson's path to that realm was one she never chose, but to her credit, she did not falter when answering what seemed a predestined calling.
		Anderson, unable to find a hall in the city, sang her recital instead in the open, undiscriminating air of Washington before the capacity of twenty concert halls, and in so doing stepped across the threshold where art and history meet.
		Marian Anderson died on 8 April, 1993, at the age of 96, and did not live to attend her 100th birthday celebration in Carnegie Hall, February 27, 1997.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7895c.html (1519 words)

	The My Hero Project - Marian Anderson
		Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Anderson was invited to perform for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
		After Sibelius met Marian Anderson, he was so impressed with her that he took this piece of work and rewrote it especially for her.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=m_anderson (778 words)

	Online NewsHour: Remembering Marian Anderson -- February 26, 1997
		Marian Anderson was one of the greatest voices in opera, but she was denied a wider audience due to the racism and segregation of her era.
		After this report on Anderson's life, Charlayne Hunter-Gault explores the life of an artist with her nephew and a fellow singer on the 100th anniversary of her birthday.
		Anderson sang at the inaugurations of Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower, and she was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1963.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/1997/anderson_2-26a.html (897 words)

	JDS Communications :: Marian Anderson: Gracious Grand Diva
		Marian Anderson's musical education and performing experience were the product of personal, familial, and communal determination and faith.
		Marian Anderson was the gracious grand diva whom Arturo Toscanini called the greatest contralto in the world.
		Marian Anderson realized her dream and became the first African American when she perform at the Metropolitan at the height of her career.
	www.jdscomm.com /jrr/anderson_bio.html (597 words)

	Marian Anderson / FemBio: notable women
		Marian won first prize in the New York Philharmonic voice competition in 1925, and was immediately signed by a concert manager, but it was not until the considerable success of her European tours that the American public took great notice of her.
		Marian was encouraged by her family and admirers to attend a music high school in Philadelphia, but she was refused because of her race.
		Marian herself, though disturbed and saddened by racial inequalities in her country, did not see a role for herself as an active, aggressive opponent of racism.
	www.fembio.org /women/marian-anderson.shtml (966 words)

	AFROCENTRIC VOICES--Marian Anderson Biography
		Contralto Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Anderson returned to the United States in 1935 for a recital at Town Hall, which this time was a critical success.
		The printed program carried the title "Remembering the Art of Marian Anderson," and indeed the focus was on her singing, not on her struggles and triumphs.
	www.afrovoices.com /anderson.html (1644 words)

	Marian Anderson biography
		FAMILY BACKGROUND: Marian Anderson was the oldest of three daughters born to John and Anna Anderson.
		When Marian was 13 years old, she joined the senior choir at church and began visiting other churches; becoming well-known and accepting invitations to sing.
		Marian’s initial invitations to sing grew to actual tours, focusing on fl colleges and churches in the South.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/ande-mar.htm (1894 words)

	Marian Anderson
		Anderson was shocked by the racist comments of the clerk--“...It was as if a cold, horrifying hand had been laid on me; I turned and walked out.” Instead, she found private lessons with two female professional singers for a few years before becoming the student of world-famous tenor Giuseppe Boghetti in 1920.
		Anderson’s Carnegie Hall debut was in 1929, and this success was followed by concert tour in Europe, where she was tremendously popular.
		Marian Anderson died in Portland, Oregon in 1993.
	www.gibbsmagazine.com /MAndereson.htm (830 words)

	Marian Anderson - contralto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marian Anderson, a woman with a pleasing plainness and dignity, with an extreme remarkable voice, which actual consists of two separate voices - an abyss low contralto, and a dramatic soprano - and with a serious and a profound musicality.
		On January 7, 1955, Marian Anderson made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera - the first of her race to sing a leading role at the Met.
		Marian is a sort of proof of the immortality of the soul, or, if that is too extreme, of the existence of the soul to which an immortality may be postulated."
	www.dutchdivas.net /altos/anderson.html (921 words)

	Today in History: January 7
		Famed contralto Marian Anderson made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955 as Ulrica in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
		Anderson was born in Philadelphia on February 27, 1897 and began her musical training at the age of six with the Union Baptist Church choir.
		Anderson died in 1993 at the age of ninety-six.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan07.html (1361 words)

	Marian Anderson by Lily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marian Anderson was born in 1902 in Philadelphia.
		The reason Marian was famous is because she has a wonderful voice and she used it.
		When Marian was a little girl, she would sing and sing.
	www.crockerfarm.org /ac/rm02/biography/MarianAnderson.htm (120 words)

	Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement at BSC : Bridgewater State College
		Marian Anderson, who has often been called "the world's greatest contralto," perhaps had a greater influence in opening doors for other fl singers than anyone else.
		Anderson, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in February 1902, was the oldest daughter of John and Anna Anderson.
		Anderson's tremendous success, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her perform in Constitution Hall in 1939.
	www.bridgew.edu /HOBA/Anderson.cfm (542 words)

	Allan Keiler / Marian Anderson
		Anderson was born in 1897 to parents who made the long journey north from Virginia to escape the clutches of Jim Crow.
		Images of Anderson singing at the 1939 Easter concert, subsequently moved to the Lincoln Memorial, established her immediately as an icon in the struggle against discrimination.
		From meetings with Anderson before her death in 1993, as well as interviews, reviews, and early coverage in the fl press and personal diaries and letters, Allan Keiler has assembled a massive and magnificent study of Anderson's life.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s02/keiler.html (231 words)

	Explore DC: Marian Anderson
		Marian Anderson's voice is one of the great instruments of song of the twentieth century, and like her singing, is deeply inspiring.
		Anderson's Washington fans were outraged when they learned that she had been denied the use of Constitution Hall because of her color.
		Black and white residents of the District formed the Marian Anderson Citizen's Committee to lobby the DAR and the federal government for appropriate recital space.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=304&base=13 (588 words)

	Marian Anderson \| Denyce Graves: Breaking the Rules \| WHYY
		However, this was quite expensive so Marian decided to enroll in a local school where she hoped that her gifts would be recognized and the costs of studying would be lower.
		Marian went to the Philadelphia Music Academy to hand in an application; the secretary told her "We don't take colored." Marian was crushed.
		Marian was not just a singer; she was a hero in the fight against racism.
	www.whyy.org /education/denycegraves/anderson.html (756 words)

	Marian Anderson - People of Pennsylvania
		She organized a concert to be given by Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial.
		In her own dignified way, Marian Anderson became a symbol of breaking color barriers in the U.S. The entire episode resulted in America beginning to focus in on its problems of racial discrimination.
		Marian Anderson continued her vocal career for the rest of her life.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/pa_ma.htm (618 words)

	Great Performances - Aida's Brothers and Sisters - A Look at the Work
		There has never been a more eloquent apostle of brotherhood through music than Miss Anderson, and, as she retraced for a final time songs and arias that had become identified with her for decades, there were hundreds of faces, fl and white, unashamedly tear-stained.
		Anderson had been booked for a concert in Constitution Hall in the nation's capital, a building owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
		She came at a moment when a great Negro personality, which the whole world could esteem and love, had become very nearly a historical imperative; and in that mysterious way that destiny takes for its working, when she was needed most, there she was.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/aidas/look.html (739 words)

	DAR \| National Society - Public Relations
		Marian Anderson was born February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pa. She started singing early in life and at the age of six, joined the family’s church choir.
		Anderson subsequently performed at Constitution Hall on several occasions, including the summer of 1942 when the DAR invited her to appear at the hall for the first concert in a series of benefit performances to aid the war relief.
		Anderson won the United Nations Peace Prize in 1977 and her 75th birthday, in 1972, was marked by a gala concert at Carnegie Hall, where she received New York City’s Handel Medallion and a congressional resolution of congratulations delivered by First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
	www.dar.org /natsociety/content.cfm?ID=610&hd=n (1379 words)

	CWHF-Marian Anderson
		A glorious contralto voice, nurtured in the choir of the Union Baptist Church, brought recognition in Europe to the young Marian Anderson.
		Vindication came in the form of an invitation from Eleanor Roosevelt to sing at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday 1939 to an audience of 75,000, followed shortly thereafter by a performance honoring Great Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
		Marian Anderson was later named a delegate to the United Nations and was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Carter.
	www.cwhf.org /hall/anderson/anderson.htm (199 words)

	Marian Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marian's first formal music training was with a renowned voice teacher at age 19.
		Marian Anderson made headlines when she became the first African American to sing a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
		Marian Anderson was a great singer who never let discrimination stop her.
	www2.lhric.org /Pocantico/womenenc/anderson2.htm (297 words)

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