Marian Anderson
SUGGESTIONS and criticisms should be made only with caution to the harried beings who organise programmes; nevertheless, it seems a pity that 3YLis programme on Marian Anderson, in the station’s "Famous Artists" series amounted to three recordings onlyhardly more than might occur unannounced in an ordinary evening’s listening. Is a fifteen-minute programme, with introductory remarks, quite worth separate and prominent advertisement? The introduction was, however, interesting, and significant chiefly for the poverty of incident it had to recerd in Miss Anderson’s life story: impoverished childhood in a community dominated artistically by religious song, a Baptist church choir, professional training; a career entirely free from artistic vicissitudes such as commercial interludes or Hollywood contracts. This must account in part for a quality in her singing which. no doubt springs from deeper gifts-a grave devotion, entirely uncorrupted, an artistic integrity created by exclusive concentration on the pure matter of song. Unlike Paul Robeson, at his best almost as great a singer, she has never had to appear in third-rate films or sing tenth-rate songs; and her total immunity from vulgarisation is some part of her unique art.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 13
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187Marian Anderson New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 13
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