There is no historical or geographical limit on what can be covered. There is no restriction on the style or genre of song or singing.
A recent recording of two unpublished songs by Amanda Ira Aldridge spur this essay on two songs Aldridge wrote with Marian Anderson’s voice in mind.
Announcing “Beyond the Music: Marian Anderson—Her Complete RCA Victor Recordings”
This month Stephen Rodgers is guest host for Thomas Hampson’s weekly program, Song and Beyond. Here are two conversations with members of the WSF team.
Although banned for much of her career from major opera houses, Marian Anderson had an intriguing and lifelong devotion to Donizetti’s aria “O mio Fernando.”
Marian Anderson was a pioneering interpreter of Jean Sibelius’s songs. “Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote,” was one of the first she recorded.
