Seventeen-year-old Marian auditioned and won ... Marian made her European debut at the Paris Opera House in 1935. Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the ...

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 ...

and an old favorite. The orchestra this season has already played one concert at the Mann Center of Mahler and Debussy, and ...