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Afro-American newspaper honors paperboys and girls in anniversary celebration
For Marian Anderson Bell, selling copies of the Afro-American newspaper on Baltimore streets as a 12-year-old papergirl in 1945 felt like freedom. Now 79 years old, Bell reminisced Saturday about stashing away the pennies she earned to buy school...
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Franklin, Perlman, Ma add musical flourishes to Obama inauguration
In addition to the traditional marches and flourishes from a military band, the inaugural ceremony included two remarkable musical interludes. The first was provided by Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, whose dynamic, gospel-inflected delivery of "My...Tags: Aretha Franklin, Aaron Copland, Yo-Yo Ma, Peabody Conservatory, John F. Williams
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'Inherently unequal'
Sun StaffOn May 17, 1954, Baltimore was a gritty blue-collar town that had the bustle of a northern industrial center and the Jim Crow laws and traditions of Dixie. Whites and blacks sweated together in the city's mills and shipyards, but segregation affected...Tags: Morgan State University, Lawyers, Labor Disputes, Colleges and Universities, NAACP
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Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney among Kennedy Center honorees
Gold DerbyThe Kennedy Center has announced the five performers to be feted at the upcoming 33rd edition of its honors: daytime TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey; two musical titans -- pop superstar Paul McCartney and country crooner Merle Haggard; and two Broadway... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 1, 1941
The Daily MirrorMarch 1, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about Marian Anderson and Tom Treanor has the story of Schuyler Standish, 13, who just enrolled at UCLA. Katharine Hepburn has promised director Garson Kanin a yes or no in 30 days. Meanwhile he...... -
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Blanche Thebom dies at 94; operatic mezzo-soprano
Times staff and wire reportsBlanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who was a mainstay at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for decades, died March 23 at her home in San Francisco of heart failure, said Dr. Peter Greenberg, a longtime family friend. She was 94. Thebom performed more...Tags: Colleges and Universities, San Francisco, The New York Times, Music Theater, Opera (genre)
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Acclaimed conductor DePreist to advise troubled Pasadena Symphony and Pops
Culture MonsterThe economically troubled, controversy-racked Pasadena Symphony and Pops announced Wednesday that it has hired an artistic advisor â and, for two October concerts , a conductor -- in James DePreist, who led the Oregon Symphony for more than 20 years....... -
Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher
Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82.
If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s...Tags: The Washington Post, Theater, Family, Colleges and Universities, Giuseppe Verdi
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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist
The Daily MirrorThe dark ages of crossword puzzle construction: Look at all those two-letter answers! Marian Anderson performs at Philharmonic Auditorium in a recital of works by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Rachmaninoff and Gretchaninoff, who is not a composer I recognize.... -
Barack Obama at Lincoln Memorial
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — It was a day that combined high-minded political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved cold weather and long security lines to attend a...Tags: Pete Seeger, Tom Hanks, Usher, Family, Jamie Foxx
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