Curator's Tour: A Story of Marian Anderson and Florence Price
Penn alumna Wenxin Tu, C'24, will give an informal curator's tour of the exhibit “My Soul is Anchored in the Lord”: A Story of Marian Anderson and Florence Price.
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Hosted by: Albrecht Music Library
About the Exhibit
Longtime collaborators and friends, world-renowned contralto Marian Anderson and composer Florence Price had the shared experience of developing their careers in music while facing racial and gender discrimination. “My Soul is Anchored in the Lord”: A Story of Marian Anderson and Florence Price offers a selection of their correspondence reproduced from Marian Anderson's personal archive, which she donated to the Penn Libraries.
The exhibit was curated by Wenxin Tu, C'24, with the guidance of music librarian Liza Vick.
About the Curator
Wenxin Tu is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2024. Growing up in Shanghai, China, she came to Penn for her undergraduate studies, pursuing a major in neuroscience and minors in music and chemistry. Passionate about music and medicine, she hopes to pursue a career as a physician-musician in the future and is currently working as a researcher in a neuroscience lab at the Perelman School of Medicine during her gap years after graduation.
A classically-trained pianist and cellist, Wenxin first became interested in Marian Anderson’s story when she participated as a solo pianist in the Marian Anderson Performance Program at Penn, and developed the concept for this exhibit as a final project in a seminar about Marian Anderson taught by Dr. Jamuna Samuel.