Collection of Home Studio Recordings, ca. 1935-1950.

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Collection of Home Studio Recordings, ca. 1935-1950.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228821977

Recordings chiefly made by Marian Anderson at her home in Danbury, Connecticut with her accompanist, Franz Rupp. Collection contains recordings of performances of complete works for voice and piano, works for solo piano, rehearsal sessions in which Anderson performs the vocal part of works in half-voice and without words, solo renderings of vocal parts by Anderson, solo and accompanied vocal exercises, and incomplete, or fragmented, performances of songs. Individual cataloging records have been created for recordings of complete songs. Collection also includes recordings of friends and family of Marian Anderson and performances by artists other than Anderson.

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7088603

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Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64k16hh (person)

Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 (although throughout much of her life she gave her birth date as February 17, 1902) in south Philadelphia. Her father, John Berkley Anderson, sold ice and coal and her mother Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson was a former schoolmistress. She was the oldest of three sisters. She began singing when she was six, in the church choir, and by eight had become a regular substitute, filling in for absent sopranos, tenors and even bass. She was presented in one c...

Motley, John J., 1913-

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Rupp, Franz, 1881-

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