MARIAN ANDERSON

 

A Portait in Music

 

Marian Anderson’s performances from the two 1956 Festival of Music (Vol.2) telecasts, as well as her previously-unreleased appearance on the Ford 50th Anniversary Show are combined on this DVD with the previously-released documentary, Marian Anderson on Stage and at Home, described below. The selections, all spirituals, include He’s got the whole World in His Hands, O What a Beautiful City, Poor Me, Heav’n, Heav’n, Roll, Jord’n, Roll. 

 

Musical Highlights

 

Handel: Begrüssung

arr. Boatner: Oh, What a Beautiful City

arr. Forrest: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

arr. Payne: Crucifixion (They Crucified my Lord)

arr. Burleigh: Deep River

Burns: Coming Through the Rye

Schubert: Ave Maria

Marian Anderson, contralto

Franz Rupp, piano

 

VAI DVD VAI4278