Marian Anderson: A Life in Song

Audio-Video Excerpts
Marian Anderson in a 1990 interview talking about Roland Hayes
Marian Anderson singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., April 1939
Marian Anderson performing "He's Got the World in His Hands"

Audio-Video Excerpts from "The Lady From Philadelphia" Note: This See It Now television program, narrated by Edward R. Murrow, was first broadcast on 30 December 1957. It documented Marian Anderson's recent tour of Asia, which began in late September, ended on the thirtieth of November, and was sponsored by the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) and the United States Information Agency (USIA).

Marian Anderson discussing the Negro Spiritual in Bangkok, Thailand

Marian Anderson performing "There's No Hidin' Place Down There" in Burma

Marian Anderson performing "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" in Seoul, Korea

Marian Anderson performing excerpts of "Comin' Through the Rye," Schubert's "Ständchen" and his "Ave Maria," and "Let My People Go" in Thailand, the Philippines, India, and Vietnam, respectively

Marian Anderson performing "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" from Samson et Dalila by St. Saëns in Bombay, India

Marian Anderson performing "You've Got To Be Taught" from South Pacific by Rodgers & Hammerstein in Malasia

Marian Anderson discussing Mahatma Gandi and performing "Lead Kindly Light" in Old Delhi, India

Video Excerpts from Home Movies from the 1940s
Marianna Farm (including Marian Anderson, Orpheus Fisher, James De Preist, and Ethel Anderson De Preist)
Martin Street, Philadelphia (the De Preist family: James the son, Ethel Anderson, and James the father) and Morris Beach, New Jersey (including James De Preist, Orpheus Fisher, and Marian Anderson
Mexico (including Diego Rivera, Dolores del Rio, Frida Kahlo, Marian Anderson, Isaac A. Jofe, and Franz Rupp), Colorado (including Marian Anderson, Orpheus Fisher, and Franz and Steffanie Rupp), and Hawaii
Launching of the S. S. Booker T. Washington, 29 September 1942, in Los Angeles
Europe (including Sol Hurok, Marian Anderson, Orpheus Fisher, and Franz Rupp)