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Name: ad-id Provider: Amazon Host s : amazon-adsystem. Save settings. In , she performed at Carnegie Hall for the first time and eventually embarked on a tour through Europe thanks to a Julius Rosenwald scholarship. By the late s, Anderson's voice had made her famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor to perform at the White House, the first African American ever to receive this honor.
Despite Anderson's success, not all of America was ready to receive her talent. In , her manager tried to set up a performance for her at Washington, D.
But the owners of the hall, the Daughters of the American Revolution, informed Anderson and her manager that no dates were available. That was far from the truth. The real reason for turning Anderson away lay in a policy put in place by the D. When word leaked out to the public about what had happened, an uproar ensued, led in part by Eleanor Roosevelt, who invited Anderson to perform instead at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday. In front of a crowd of more than 75,, Anderson offered up a riveting performance that was broadcast live for millions of radio listeners.
Over the next several decades of her life, Anderson's stature only grew. In , she performed the national anthem at President John F. Kennedy 's inauguration.
She displayed a remarkable skill for singing when she was very young, and she loved singing for her church choir. When she could not afford singing lessons, her fellow choir members raised the money that allowed her to study with a famous singing teacher.
When Anderson was twenty-three years old, she entered a competition and won first place over three hundred other singers. The Marian Anderson. Reproduced by permission of the Corbis Corporation. Further sponsorships enabled her to continue her studies in both the United States and in Europe. Following Anderson's debuts first performances on stage in a particular city in Berlin, Germany, in and London, England, in , she performed in Scandinavia northern Europe , South America, and the Soviet Union.
In Salzburg, Austria, she gave a sensational performance. The famous conductor Arturo Toscanini — was in the audience. After hearing her sing, Toscanini said she had "a voice heard but once in a century. At the end of Anderson's European tour, she was signed to a contract for fifteen concerts in the United States. She performed pieces by European classical composers as well as several African American spirituals traditional religious songs.
The performance was a great success. Critics welcomed her as a "new high priestess of song. Over the next several years Anderson sang for U. She made several cross-country tours and soon was booking engagements scheduling jobs two years in advance. In one year she traveled twenty-six thousand miles. It was the longest tour in concert history. She gave seventy concerts in five months. By it was estimated that she had performed before nearly four million listeners.
Anderson was a pioneer in winning recognition at home and abroad for African American artists. Her concert there, on Easter morning, drew a live audience of seventy-five thousand, and millions more heard it over the radio. In Anderson underwent a dangerous throat operation for a growth that threatened to damage her voice.
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