A Marian Anderson Windfall
WSF Team
4 October 2021
Announcing “Beyond the Music: Marian Anderson—Her Complete RCA Victor Recordings”
There is no historical or geographical limit on what can be covered. There is no restriction on the style or genre of song or singing.
Announcing “Beyond the Music: Marian Anderson—Her Complete RCA Victor Recordings”
This month Stephen Rodgers is guest host for Thomas Hampson’s weekly program, Song and Beyond. Here are two conversations with members of the WSF team.
Although banned for much of her career from major opera houses, Marian Anderson had an intriguing and lifelong devotion to Donizetti’s aria “O mio Fernando.”
Marian Anderson was a pioneering interpreter of Jean Sibelius’s songs. “Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote,” was one of the first she recorded.