Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

Classical singer and Black civil rights activist Marian Anderson, who was denied performing in the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall in segregated Washington, D.C., a year ...

Eleanor defies segregation laws when she sits between whites and blacks at the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama; She arranges for Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln ...

Begining Sept. 26 with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s opening night concert, located in Marian Anderson Hall, the first work ...

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DAR Marian Anderson Legacy Scholarship Opening Soon for Applications Application portal opens November 1, Apply by Jan. 31 ...

Samuel Graydon’s “Einstein in Time and Space” is not an exhaustive biography. Instead it presents 99 vignettes ... such as the story of the black contralto Marian Anderson, who had been invited in ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The family of the late Peter Nero is gifting the Philly Pops' name and his musical arrangements to the current "No Name Pops." Nero served as conductor of the Philly Pops ...

and everyone in between. Its collection weaves together story and biography from precolonial times to the present to tell the American story. America’s Presidents, the nation’s only complete ...

Two new horror films are releasing across Canada, as well as a romance starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. There are many more movies opening in cities across Canada so have a look below ...