Flip to Marian Anderson (center) with her mother and sisters Alyse (left), and Ethel (right), circa 1910.Close Window
Credit: Marian Anderson Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
In the mid-1930s Marian Anderson built an international reputation through her acclaimed performances in Europe. It was during an afternoon concert at a hotel ballroom in Salzburg, Austria, in 1935 that conductor Arturo Toscanini proclaimed that "a voice like hers is heard only once in a hundred years."
