Marian Anderson

Camilla Williams dies at 92; opera singer broke racial barriers

2012-01-31 00:00:00

Camilla Williams, believed to be the first African American woman to appear with a major U.S. opera company, has died. She was 92. Williams died Sunday at her home in Bloomington, Ind., according to her attorney, Eric Slotegraaf. She died of...

Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney among Kennedy Center honorees

2010-09-08 16:33:49

Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 1, 1941

2011-03-01 16:33:12

Shirley Verrett dies at 79; acclaimed mezzo-soprano

2010-11-07 00:00:00

Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79. Verrett, one of the top opera singers of the 1970s and '80s, had...

Blanche Thebom dies at 94; operatic mezzo-soprano

2010-03-30 17:23:00

Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who was a mainstay at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for decades, died March 23 at her home in San Francisco of heart failure, said Dr. Peter Greenberg, a longtime family friend. She was 94. Thebom performed more...

Acclaimed conductor DePreist to advise troubled Pasadena Symphony and Pops

2010-06-02 21:32:57

Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher

2009-07-27 00:00:00

Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82. If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s...

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2010-02-04 16:32:58

Exhibits, events mark Lincoln bicentennial Feb. 12

2009-02-10 10:42:09

WASHINGTON � Some of the biggest celebrations of the bicentennial of Abe Lincoln's birthday kick off in Washington on his Feb. 12 birthdate. But you can also catch many Lincoln-related exhibits and events later this year and in other parts of the country....

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2008-11-12 11:27:27

Inauguration: Tickets and hotels hard to come by WASHINGTON � Tickets to balls and other events related to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration will be hard to come by, but you can always join the crowds along the parade route, and Washington tourism...

New President Barack Obama calls for hope amid cold reality

2009-01-20 22:27:17

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Afro-American newspaper honors paperboys and girls in anniversary celebration

2012-07-21 14:21:00

For Marian Anderson Bell, selling copies of the Afro-American newspaper on Baltimore streets as a 12-year-old papergirl in 1945 felt like freedom. Now 79 years old, Bell reminisced Saturday about stashing away the pennies she earned to buy school...

Opera star Denyce Graves sings at "A Celebration of Freedom, Honoring Marian Anderson " concert held at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Anderson's concert Sunday. Graves was wearing the same gown Marian Anderson wore when she sang at the Lincoln Memorial.

2009-04-12 00:00:00

Opera star Denyce Graves sings during the concert to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson 's concert.

2009-04-12 00:00:00

Harold Ickes, son of Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior under Franklin Roosevelt , listens rapt at "A Celebration of Freedom, Honoring Marian Anderson " a concert held at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday April 12, 2009 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the famous singer's concert.

2009-04-12 00:00:00