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Marian Anderson

AST Tuesday’s For My Lady session from 2YA (Marian Anderson in the World-Famous Artists series) was one of the most moving and impressive I have yet heard. But the credit for this was entirely Miss Anderson’s. Her voice has to me an almost embarrassing faculty for tear-jerking, so that although I have heard "My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair" scores of times-and even sung it myself with cheerful disregard of its embvtional content-I cannot hear Marian Anderson sing it without feeling as moved as Wordsworth by his Solitary Reaper. The disadvantage, of course, is that the more complete the sway exercised on the listener by the World Famous Artist the more likely one is to feel conscious of any lack of artistry in the accompanying script. Since the whole programme has to be fitted into 20 minutes it is understandable that the spoken comments must be bald and biographical rather than interpretive, but in this elevated milieu it 1s hard to forgive and forget phrases such as the youthful Marian "joining in for all she was Worth."

This article text was automatically generated and may include errors. View the full page to see article in its original form.I whakaputaina aunoatia ēnei kuputuhi tuhinga, e kitea ai pea ētahi hapa i roto. Tirohia te whārangi katoa kia kitea te āhuatanga taketake o te tuhinga.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 10

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Marian Anderson New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 10

Marian Anderson New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 10

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