President-elect Donald Trump has selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at his second ...

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

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 ...

Countertenors — whose vocal range extends into that of a contralto (like Anderson) or even a soprano — tend to wow listeners who remain unaccustomed to hearing such heights from a male singer.

In 1955, singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1962, “The Twist” by Chubby ...