Marian Anderson, noted contralto ... on a farm in Connecticut. She died of congestive heart failure on April 8, 1993. The following June, a memorial service attended by 2,000 admirers paid ...

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 ...

"A tribute to Marian Anderson of this nature, we think it's long overdue," Miller said. "She was an iconic artist and she fought discrimination at every turn with grace and grit and kept on going.