My Lord, What a Morning - 6440

Marian Anderson's account of her life is something like her well-known voice -- effortless, inspiring, and deeply moving. Like the voice, too, the book expresses its author's warm and reverent approach to living and to music. Miss Anderson's glorious contralto is one of the few great instruments of song within modern memory -- Toscanini has said that a voice like hers happens only once in a hundred years. Though she began singing as a mere child, in her church in Philadelphia, she came only slowly to know that she had this gift, as she loved to sing more than anything else. During her girlhood she began to be in demand in other churches, and the small feed she earned were more important than "the voice," for these enabled her to help her widowed mother and family. But the encouragement of others gradually made it plain that a career might be possible if she had the will to work and the fortitude to face the obstacles of the concert world. Years of arduous study followed, punctuated by