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Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

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Marian Anderson studying a musical score with the pianist Kurt Johnen, Berlin, 1931

Black Voices, German Song

What did German listeners hear when African American singers performed Schubert or Brahms?

by Adam Kirsch via New York Review of Books on January 20, 2022

Clockwise from left: William Dawson, Marian Anderson, William Grant Still, Florence Price. Background features the score of Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2.

Classical Music and the Color Line

Despite its universalist claims, the field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion.

by Douglas Shadle via Boston Review on December 15, 2021

Marian Anderson looking downwards

Marian Anderson’s Bone-Chilling Rendition of “Crucifixion”

Her performances of the Black spiritual in the nineteen-thirties caused American and European audiences to fall silent in awe.

by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on October 19, 2021

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