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Marian Anderson [videorecording] / WETA, Washington, D.C. ; produced by Dante J. James ; written by Juan Williams.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1561278513 :
  • Physical Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
  • Publisher: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur,

Content descriptions

Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Rick Malkames; editor, Anthony Black; narrator, Avery Brooks.
Summary, etc.: A biography of virtuosa Marian Anderson from the time she sang spirituals as a child at the Union Baptist Church in Philadelphia to the beginning of her classical career in Europe in the 1930's, her return to the United States, her eventual appearance at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1955 (the first black person to perform there), to her retirement in 1965, "a national treasure."
System Details Note: VHS.
Language Note: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

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