/tags/marian-anderson marian anderson en-US Copyright Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:01:15 GMT /npr-news/2024-06-11/philadelphia-orchestra-renames-hall-after-hometown-legend-marian-anderson The name of the great contralto and civil rights icon now lives above the doors to the grand hall in Philadelphia鈥檚 Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:01:15 GMT /npr-news/2024-06-11/philadelphia-orchestra-renames-hall-after-hometown-legend-marian-anderson Lara Downes /classical-101/2021-08-27/celebrating-marian-anderson Sony Classical has just issued a 15 CD set of all of Marian Anderson鈥檚 RCA recordings, including several titles never before published. The set comes with a 鈥渃offee table book鈥� detailing the lady鈥檚 formidable career. From African American churches in Philadelphia to Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, South America and every European capital. From the Metropolitan Theater in Detroit to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:57:39 GMT /classical-101/2021-08-27/celebrating-marian-anderson Christopher Purdy /show/classical-101-by-request/2017-04-03/let-freedom-ring-marian-andersons-monumental-1939-easter-sunday-concert I want you to buy this CD.On Easter Sunday 1939, contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993) sang a concert from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in鈥� Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:49:57 GMT /show/classical-101-by-request/2017-04-03/let-freedom-ring-marian-andersons-monumental-1939-easter-sunday-concert Christopher Purdy /classical-101/2009-05-14/marian-anderson-the-sound-of-freedom I had been disappointed that the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson's 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial had passed鈥� Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:45 GMT /classical-101/2009-05-14/marian-anderson-the-sound-of-freedom admin