" Prejudice is like a hair on the cheek. You can see, you can touch, but you always try to remove it because it feels itchy. " Marian Anderson Some memories long hidden in the depths of memory and one fine day, by chance, they resurface. This is what has happened to me with a voice, that of the great singer Marian Anderson .
For me, during my childhood, there was very little music, some 78 rpm records and a wooden radio which access was forbidden I listened but sometimes in secret.
discs? There was no more than ten, I am reminded of Alma Pena of Carlos Gardel, the heroic Polish of Chopin, played by Witold Malcuzinsky and then the Ave Maria Schubert of and a Negro spiritual, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child sung by Marian Anderson .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtpsd8VXTqc&feature=related
I always asked to hear this deep voice, deep spellbinding me, and it was spirituals that attracted my attention. There was so much pain, too much injustice and so much hope in that voice and this song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QedPOq2gi7U&feature=related
A little later, to my thirteen years in 1960, it presented me with a radio, a radio beautiful shapes geometric, green and yellow! In those days, when he was Negro spirituals, the only voices they were listening to those of Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson .
And now faced with a CD of Marian Anderson all these memories, all those feelings spill over as living there for over fifty years!
Marian Anderson is not only one of the first black opera singers with international fame, is also a life dedicated to the struggle for equal civil rights. When she sang " Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom stayed (" Woke up this morning with my mind inhabited by freedom "), she knew exactly what she meant, having itself suffered many times torture of racial discrimination. Born in 1897 in Philadelphia and died in Portland in 1993, education
music of Marian Anderson was the result of the efforts of his mother, a widow since 1911, and his community. Between 1915 and 1918, the young Marian learned the song in his hometown and was able to study at the Conservatory of the city of Chicago. In 1917 she appeared in public concerts and participated as soloist in the Messiah of Handel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZoqU_-J-UY
In 1927, the singer made his first European tour in London in this case, where she presented herself with the Promenade Concerts , among others, works by Debussy . Success was not at the rendezvous. She then decided that the next trip would be in Germany where she could further improve in the art of song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p1PGgsZe18&p=2C2914F43E4B10B3&playnext=1&index=2
In 1930, when she learned the songs in Berlin, she was contacted by Rule Rasmussen, a Norwegian manager and Vehanen Kosti, a Finnish pianist. This resulted in a six-month tour in Scandinavia. Vehanen would pianist Marian Anderson for over ten years.
" This first trip to the country scandinaves était un encouragement. Il m'a fait comprendre que le temps et l'énergie investis pour devenir une artiste étaient peu de chose, et que ce que j'avais osé désirer n'était pas impossible », affirmait la chanteuse.
Marian Anderson retourna en Scandinavie en 1933. Durant ce voyage, Vehanen lui apprit quelques chansons du grand compositeur finlandais Ian Sibelius qui, quand elle lui rendit visita, s’exclama que le toit de sa maison était trop bas pour une telle voix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yKuAJwFmU
L’un des points les plus hauts des tournées européennes de Marian Anderson fut son récital à Salzbourg in 1935. Arturo Toscanini, who had attended, said that "a voice like hers is only found once every hundred years."
Following a tradition dating back to Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson ended every concert with a series of Negro spirituals. These " adaptations of songs sung by slaves, shouting, fighting or call hymns," as Martin Luther King said , won in his voice a rare perfection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akqeZuOtVB4
" With this music, this rich heritage of our ancestors who had the guts and fortitude to find the beauty in these fragments of their music - thanks to this legacy of our ancestors whose spirits illiterate were able to compose these words simple but eloquent, full of faith, hope and idealism, we can make our most deeply buried grievances and aspirations of the most passionate, always ending on a note of hope, hope that God will help us out, here in the South where evil continues the life of a Black since the day we sleep in his crib. Through this music, the Black can fathom the bottomless pit of a situation deeply compromised and, despite heavy circumstances of peril, we can grow a wonderful optimism, sparkling and clear. He knows he's still dark in his world, but anyway, he manages to find a ray of light , "says the apostle and martyr of the civil rights Martin Luther
King. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9_mCk5lFU
Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the same place where Luther King
gave his famous speech " I have a dream "in 1961, as well as him, the African-American singer marked the history of the struggle for black civil rights. Some time ago, the Daughters of the American Revolution had managed to make her shut the doors of the Constitution Hall in Washington for the sole reason she was black.
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President of the United States, organized a charity concert which attracted
more than 75,000 spectators and was broadcast on radio. This concert is a crucial moment in the fight against racial discrimination. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88UTjnWhAxE&feature=related
In July 1954, Marian Anderson returned to his hometown of Philadelphia to launch the "Marian Anderson Recreation Center . The photo of Look Magazine shows her sitting by her mother, walking in the city with her sister, talking with a student from public school and singing in the Baptist church.
On 7 January 1955, she became the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. She plays the role of Ulrica in Verdi's opera , Un Ballo in Maschera . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUfEcTRzIY
the day of signature Contract, October 9, 1954, the New York Times said " If there was discrimination against Miss Anderson, the real suffering was not for her, but for us. It is we who are impoverished, not her .
On January 20, 1961, she sang the American national anthem at the inauguration of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy .
Marian Anderson retired in 1965 and died April 8, 1993 at his
nephew James DePriest, director of the Oregon Symphony Music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9ZnPB3InY&feature=related
Martin Luther King, yet it sums up perfectly the personality of this great singer:
" You know the beautiful woman who embodies all the beauty of the race and black culture, Marian Anderson. Some of you have seen it. Marian began as a little girl in the choir of the Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Then came the glorious day when she managed to break through (...) Many years later, someone asked Marian, "Miss Anderson, what was the happiest day of your life? Is that where you started at Carnegie Hall? Marian replied, "No, not at all". "Is that where you have sung before kings and queens of Europe? "No," she said. "Is it then the day when the great Sibelius, Finland, said his house was too small to contain a voice so ample? "
" No, no, it was not that day. " "Perhaps then the day Toscanini said that a voice like yours, there's only one per century? "- No, she says, certainly not." "But when Miss Anderson? She raised her eyes and a calm voice: "The happiest day of my life," she said, it was one I could tell my mother: "Now, Mom, you can stop working . The sumptuous voice
Marian Anderson fut, dans mon cas, celle qui toutes les m'ouvrit postage de la musique et de la beauté.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTiZNN7udG4
" Prejudice is like a hair on the cheek. One can not see, you can not play, but always tries to remove it as it is an irritating sensation "Marian Anderson Certain memories for a long time hiding in the depths of memory and a good day come to the surface. This is what just happened with one voice, that of the great singer Marian Anderson.
At home, during my childhood, there was little music, some discs of radius 78 and a timber to which access was forbidden, but I heard sometimes in secret.
"discs? There was more than ten, I remember Alma en pena of Carlos Gardel the Heroic Polonaise of Chopin, played by Witold Malcuzinsky and then of Ave Maria Schubert and a black spiritual, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child sung by Marian Anderson .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtpsd8VXTqc&feature=related
always hear that voice calling for serious and profound charmed me and what particularly attracted my attention was the spiritual. There was so much pain, so much injustice and so much hope in that voice and that song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QedPOq2gi7U&feature=related
A little later, to my thirteen years in 1960, I got a radio, a beautiful radio geometric shapes, green and yellow! At that time, if it was black spirituals, the only voices heard were those of Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson .
And lo, in front of a CD of Marian Anderson all these memories, all these feelings come as alive as more than fifty years!
Marian Anderson is not only one of the first black opera singers have known international fame, is also a life devoted to the struggle for equal civil rights. When he sang " Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Freedom " ("I woke up this morning with my mind occupied for freedom"), knew exactly what he was talking, having herself suffered torture often racial discrimination .
Born in 1897 in Philadelphia and died in Portland in 1993, the musical education of Marian Anderson was the result of the efforts of his mother, widow 1911, and his community.
Between 1915 and 1918, young Marian learned singing in his native city and he studied at the Conservatory of the city of Chicago. Since 1917 presented in public concerts and participated as a soloist in the Messiah of Handel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZoqU_-J-UY
In 1927, the singer made his first European tour in London, more precisely, where he appeared at the Promenade Concerts with, among others, works by Debussy . The success did not attend the appointment. Then decided that the next trip would to Germany where he could further perfect the art of the lied.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p1PGgsZe18&p=2C2914F43E4B10B3&playnext=1&index=2
In 1930, while learning the lied in Berlin, was contacted by Rule Rasmussen, a Norwegian manager and Vehanen Kosti, a Finnish pianist. It follows a six-month tour in Scandinavia. Vehanen would pianist Marian Anderson for over ten years.
" This first trip to Scandinavia was a stimulus. It made me realize that time and energy spent to reach to be an artist was not much and that what I had dared to want was not impossible, "said the singer.
Marian Anderson returned to Scandinavia in 1933. During that trip, Vehanen taught him some songs of the great Finnish composer Sibelius Ian who, when she visited him said that his roof was too low for such a voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yKuAJwFmU
One of the highest points of their European tour of Marian Anderson was his recital at
Salzburg in 1935 . Arturo Toscanini, who had witness, testified that " a voice like yours is only once every hundred years ." Following a tradition that dated back to Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson ended each of his concerts with a number of black spirituals. These " adaptations of songs sung by slaves, screams of joy, called the fight or hymns," as Martin Luther King said , acquired in his voice a rare perfection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akqeZuOtVB4
" Thanks to this music, this rich heritage of our ancestors who had the courage and moral force is to find beauty in the scattered fragments of his music, thanks to this legacy of our ancestors whose spirits illiterate were able to compose these
simple but eloquent words, full of faith, hope and idealism, we can make our grievances and our most deeply hidden aspirations passionate, always ending with a note of hope, hope that God will help you get ahead, even here in the South which evil persecutes black life from the day he sleeps in his crib. Through this music, the black man can fathom the bottomless pit of a situation deeply committed and, despite the danger-filled circumstances, can grow a wonderful optimism, bright and clear. He knows that his world is sober but still manages to find in it a ray of light "says even the Apostle and civil rights martyr Martin Luther King. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9_mCk5lFU
Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in the same place where Luther King delivered his famous speech "I have a dream " in 1961, and as much as he marked the African American singer the history of the struggle for civil rights
blacks. A while back, the Daughters of the American Revolution had made him close the doors of Constitution Hall in Washington for the sole reason that it was black.
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President of the United States, organized a benefit concert that attracted over 75,000 spectators and was broadcast on radio. This concert is a crucial moment in the fight against racial discrimination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88UTjnWhAxE&feature=related
In July 1954, Marian Anderson returned to his hometown of Philadelphia, to inaugurate the "Marian Anderson Recreation Center ." The Look Magazine photo shoot shows her sitting with her mother, walking in town with his sister, talking to a student from public school and singing in the Baptist school.
On January 7, 1955, is the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. Play the role of Ulrica in Verdi's opera , Un ballo in maschera .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUfEcTRzIY
The date of signature the contract, the October 9, 1954, the New York Times said "If there was discrimination with Miss Anderson, the real suffering was not for her but for us. We have depleted not her. " On January 20, 1961, sang the American national anthem during the presidential inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy .
Marian Anderson retired in 1965 and died on April 8, 1993 at his nephew James DePriest, director of the Oregon Symphony Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9ZnPB3InY&feature=related
Martin Luther King, again, perfectly sums up the personality of this huge singer:
" know this woman pride that embodies all the beauty of the race and black culture, Marian Anderson. Some of you have seen. Marian debuted as a child in the choir of the Baptist church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Then came the day that gloriso
was able to win (...) Many years later, someone asked her: "Miss Anderson, what was the most beautiful day of your life? When debuted at Carnegie Hall? Marian replied "Not at all." "When she sang for kings and queens Europe? "No," he said "So when the great Sibelius, Finland, said his home was too small to hold a voice so wide? "" No, no, it was that day. " "Perhaps when Toscanini said he had a voice like yours every century? "- No, he said, probably not." "But then, Miss Anderson? "She looked up and said with a calm voice:" The most beautiful day of my life was one where I could tell my mother: "Now, Mom, you can stop working ."
The sumptuous voice of Marian Anderson was, in my case, I opened all the doors of music y of the belleza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTiZNN7udG4
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