9780252070532-0252070534-My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography (Music in American Life)

My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography (Music in American Life)

ISBN-13: 9780252070532
ISBN-10: 0252070534
Edition: Reprint
Author: Marian Anderson
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780252070532
ISBN-10: 0252070534
Edition: Reprint
Author: Marian Anderson
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography (Music in American Life) (ISBN-13: 9780252070532 and ISBN-10: 0252070534), written by authors Marian Anderson, was published by University of Illinois Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Instruments (Black & African American, Cultural & Regional, Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography (Music in American Life) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Instruments books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.14.

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My Lord, What a Morning is a gentle and engrossing memoir, abounding with the tender and inspiring stories of Marian Anderson's life in her own modest words. From her humble but proud beginnings in south Philadelphia to international vocal renown, the legendary contralto writes of triumph and adversity, of being grounded in faith and surrounded by family, and of the music that shaped her career.
Anderson published My Lord, What a Morning in 1956 on the heels of her groundbreaking role as the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. In it are bittersweet reminiscences of a working-class childhood, from her first job scrubbing the neighbors' steps to the sorrow and upheaval of her father's untimely death. Here are the stories of a young girl with prodigious talent, and her warm remembrances of the teachers, managers, friends, accompanists, and fans who worked to foster it. Here is a veritable travelogue of her concerts across the globe and rare glimpses at the personal life of a woman more concerned with family than celebrity.
An entire chapter devoted to the Easter concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 reveals Anderson's immense respect for Eleanor Roosevelt, who resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution when they refused to let Anderson perform at Constitution Hall. Supplanting sorrow and regret for anger and violence, Anderson demurely imparts her views on discrimination and on becoming an icon in the struggle for civil rights.
With eleven photographs and a touching new foreword by Anderson's nephew, famed conductor and poet James DePreist, this new paperback edition of My Lord, What a Morning revives the classic portrait of a musical legend who was resilient in the bullying face of bigotry and gracious in the unfaltering glow of fame.
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