May 2013
April 2013
Leontyne Price | What's My Line?
Leontyne Price | Honoree NEA 2008
As a youngster, Ms. Price wished to follow the artistic performance qualities of Ms. Marian Anderson, who was the first African American to sing a leading role with Metropolitan Opera, New York; a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee; and, a goodwill ambassadress for the United States Department of State.
Marian Anderson | Sings at Lincoln Memorial
YOUTUBE NOTES. Marian Anderson was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the [Daughters of the American Revolution] DAR because of her color. Instead, and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ickes permitted her to perform at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939.
