| Marian McPartland - In A Mist |
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In a Mist McPartland Marian 1974
[thanks to boberwig on dailymotion]
Pianist Marian McPartland plays a tune
composed by Bix Beiderbecke. He recorded "In
the Mist" in 1927.
Margaret Marian Turner was born in England on
March 21, 1918 near Slough, Buckinghamshire.
As a child, young Marian Turner approached
the piano around the age of three. While
gaining proficiency on her own, she often
provided musical entertainment at family
gatherings. Her parents, however, enrolled
Marian in violin lessons. Marian's enrollment
in a boarding school ended her doomed attempt
at playing the violin, and she eventually
ended up at the famous London Guildhall
School of Music where she studied piano and
composition.
Marian was introduced to jazz by a boyfriend
who often brought jazz records to her house.
For hours they would listen to the music of
Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller,
and others. From that point on, Marian was
hooked on jazz. In 1943, Marian began playing
in USO camp shows in Belgium and France,
where she met a Chicago cornetist named Jimmy
McPartland, a Bix Beiderbeck protege. In
1952, Marian's trio began what was to become
a long-running gig at New York's Hickory
House, where many legendary musicians to whom
Marian had once listened often sat in the
audience listening to Marian.
In 1978, Marian began hosting her own radio
program for National Public Radio and South
Carolina Educational Radio: Marian
McPartland's Piano Jazz. Marian's most
recently released CD on the Concord Jazz
label is Just Friends, featuring jazz
greats-- Tommy Flanagan, Renee Rosnes, George
Shearing, Geri Allen, Dave Brubeck, and Gene
Harris--playing duets with Marian.
Additionally, a CD titled Portraits was
released on the NPR label in the summer of
1999. This CD, as suggested by the title, is
a compendium of Marian's musical portraits of
several guests on Piano Jazz.
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Durée : 276 s |
| Marian Anderson - Deep River |
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DEEP RIVER
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 -- April
8, 1993), was an American contralto, perhaps
best remembered for her performance on Easter
Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, D.C..
--BIOGRAPHY--
Anderson was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Rucker
Anderson and the former Anna Delilah Rucker.
Two sisters followed young Marian, Alice
(later spelled Alyce) (1899-1965) and Ethel
(1902-1990) who also became singers. Ethel
Anderson was mother to James DePreist. Marian
Anderson joined a junior church choir at the
age of six, and applied to an all-white music
school after her graduation from high school
in 1921, but was turned away because she was
black. The woman working the admissions
counter replied, "We don't take colored" when
she tried to apply. Consequently, she
continued her singing studies with a private
teacher. She debuted with the New York
Philharmonic on August 26, 1925 and scored an
immediate success, also with the critics. In
1928, she sang for the first time at Carnegie
Hall. Her reputation was further advanced by
her tour through Europe in the early 1930s
where she did not encounter the racial
prejudices she had experienced in America.
The famed conductor Arturo Toscanini told her
she had a voice "heard once in a hundred
years." In 1934, impresario Sol Hurok offered
her a better contract than she had previously
had with Arthur Judson. Hurok became her
manager for the rest of her performing
career.
In 1939, the Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR) refused permission for
Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in
Constitution Hall. The District of Columbia
Board of Education declined a request to use
the auditorium of a white public high school.
As a result of the ensuing furor, thousands
of DAR members, including First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt, resigned.
The Roosevelts, with Walter White,
then-executive secretary of the NAACP, and
Anderson's manager, impresario Sol Hurok,
then persuaded Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open air Marian
Anderson concert on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial. The concert, commencing with a
dignified and stirring rendition of "My
Country, 'Tis of Thee" attracted a crowd of
more 75,000 of all colors and was a sensation
with a national radio audience of millions.
The concert mentioned above was held on
Easter Sunday in 1939. Anderson was
accompanied by the Finnish accompanist Kosti
Vehanen, who introduced Marian to Jean
Sibelius in 1933. Sibelius was overwhelmed
with Anderson's performance and asked his
wife to bring champagne in place of the
traditional coffee. At this moment Sibelius
started altering and composing songs for
Anderson, who was delighted to have met a
musician of Sibelius' magnitude, who felt
that she had been able to penetrate the
Nordic soul.
In 1939 Sibelius made a new arrangement of
the song Solitude and dedicated it to
Anderson. Originally The Jewish Girl's Song
from his 1906 incidental music to
Belshazzar's Feast, this later became the
"Solitude" section of the orchestral suite
derived from the incidental music.
In 1943, Anderson sang at the invitation of
the DAR to an integrated audience at
Constitution Hall as part of a benefit for
the American Red Cross. By contrast, the
federal government continued to bar her from
using the high school auditorium in the
District of Columbia.
On January 7, 1955, Anderson broke the color
barrier by becoming the first
African-American to perform with the New York
Metropolitan Opera. On that occasion, she
sang the part of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's
Un ballo in maschera.
In 1958 she was officially designated
delegate to the United Nations, a
formalization of her role as "goodwill
ambassador" of the U.S. she played earlier,
and in 1972 she was awarded the UN Peace
Prize.
After an extensive farewell tour, she retired
from singing in 1965. However, she continued
to appear publicly, narrating Aaron Copland's
Lincoln Portrait, including a performance
with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga
in 1976, conducted by the composer. Her
achievements were recognized and honored with
many prizes, including the Kennedy Center
Honors in 1978 and a Grammy Award for
Lifetime Achievement in 1991.
In 1993, Anderson died of heart failure at
age 96 in Portland, Oregon at the home of her
nephew, conductor James DePreist. She is
interred at Eden Cemetery, in Collingdale,
Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
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Affichage : 38417
Durée : 190 s |
| MARIAN ANDERSON.1939.LINCOLN MEMORIAL.MUSICAL HISTORY! FILM. |
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ONE OF THE MOMENTS IN MUSICAL HISTORY WHEN
THE AUDIENCE, WITH PRIDE COULD SAY,"I WAS
THERE" Famous appearance and performance, at
the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, USA. 1939.
Discreetly discussed by Eleanor Roosevelt,
with a member of her husband's government,
whose permssion was necessary. News
commentary, and singing, 'My Country'Tis of
Thee'.Same melody as our British National
Anthem,'God Save the Queen'. Marian Anderson
says in her autobiography that on arrival at
the back door,driven in a friend's car, she
walked quickly, and nervously into the
memorial where she was greeted by that member
of the government. She looked surreptitiously
out and nearly fainted! The crowd was
immense,as far as the eye could see. Her
immediate response was to run to the back
door and flee! However she had second
thoughts, and calmed herself. Thank goodness.
History was made on that day, and America
should look back with pride. It's something I
was told about at school, and I've never
forgotten about it. I live in Scotland UK!
Posted with permission from Nancy
Shawcross,Curator,Penn University,Marian
Anderson.On the web.
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Durée : 68 s |
| Marian Gaborik |
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Video Montage of Marian Gaborik, the
Slovakian Rocket, Made by some guy who didn't
post it on here and I posted it on here cause
its an awesome video and I wanted it on my
myspace... thats all
the song is "Super Sonic Speed" By Die Happy
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Affichage : 95825
Durée : 218 s |
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