Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

Marian Anderson, noted contralto ... on a farm in Connecticut. She died of congestive heart failure on April 8, 1993. The following June, a memorial service attended by 2,000 admirers paid ...

After she died in 1993, the home was purchased by ... Louie Armstrong and more broke bread with Marian Anderson at her invitation," Pirtle said. "Because during the times of Jim Crow and ...