Thank God for youtube so that we can share the beauty and keep it alive years after Marion has gone.

You don't hear a performance like this everyday. This is an unbelievably beautiful voice up there with the most beautiful voices of all time.

my mother went to one of her concert in Paris in 1945 at the saint Chapelle. Her voice is more than music, it cures you, it bring you to serenity.

@pilouetmissiou

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yes this is true...

Thank you for this posting. My wife found a framed picture of Marian Anderson in an antique store some years ago. We have it hung in our bedroom now. I lived in Washington, DC when she sang at the Lincoln Memorial. I was only 4 then, but later as a child I soon realized the history and signifcance of that concert. And I did sing the "Alto Rhapsody" with a choral group once - First UM Methodist Church of Hyattsville, MD in the early "90"s. Dr. Dale Krider conducted the piece. A geat memory!

Thank you so very much. Thank you for keeping alive the testimony to life and love that this woman possessed. As a white man, I am so grateful that Marian Anderson has gotten her due (or do we ever?) Her voice and interpretations were heart-wrenchingly beautiful.

Wonderful 😢

As Toscanini said upon hearing her sing, "A voice like yours is heard once in a hundred years."

Very beautiful...

immense!!! :-)

Greatest contralto ever...

I grew up with this... ILM of my dad...

Playing a collection of the rapsody-versions, it's wonderful to run into this one.Great photo-set.

This performance ranks in my opinion with the Ferrier as an all-time classic.

pt 2 is beyond... too good

beautiful!

@aspergershawn -- I'll have to get that biography by Allan Keilor. Thank you for mentioning it. In my younger years I read Marian Anderson's autobiography: "My Lord, What a Morning." It is written in the warm simplicity that is this great singer's extraordinary quality.

who conducts?