Víkingur Ólafsson, who played to a near-full-house at his Thursday recital at the Kimmel Center, is a rather unlikely sensation. The studious, bookish 42-year-old Icelandic pianist has arrived at the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Queen Latifah has declined Philadelphia's Marian Anderson Award. She is citing personal reasons, but no other details have been given. Latifah was supposed to accept the award ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Marian Anderson Museum recently reopened its doors after more than four years of rebuilding and renovations and there's a new exhibition to welcome visitors back. "Marian: ...

Famed opera and spiritual singer Marian Anderson was a woman who broke many racial barriers. She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first ...

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

The Black contralto put European art music and African-American spirituals in parity — and in her art, paved the way for generations of singers... Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts is proud to announce an endowed scholarship program established in memory of Marian Anderson, following the renaming of Verizon Hall to Marian Anderson ...

Undergraduate and graduate students studying music can apply for the DAR Marian Anderson Legacy Scholarship through Jan. 31. Sponsored by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR ...

The Marian Anderson String Quartet, the first African American ensemble to win a major classical music competition, will be in residence at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from Wednesday, ...

Undergraduate and graduate students studying music can apply for the DAR Marian Anderson Legacy Scholarship through Jan. 31, 2026. Sponsored by the National Society Daughters of the American ...