Mr. DE PREIST: And any family who's already given Marian Anderson doesn't have to produce anybody else.

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In 1954, Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.

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Its stage was also home to ground-breaking performances: Opera singer Marian Anderson made her New York debut there in 1935.

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DePreist was the nephew of Marian Anderson, a celebrated contralto whose 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial was a landmark moment in civil-rights history.

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Ms. MARIAN ANDERSON (Contralto): (Singing) Come, Lord, Lord of morning.

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Mr. DE PREIST: She knew that she was Marian Anderson, but my aunt was simultaneously the most humble person I ever met in my life and the most powerful.

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David Strom, a German Jewish physicist recently arrived in the United States, and Delia Daley, an African-American doctor's daughter, meet at Marian Anderson's famous 1939 concert at Washington Mall.

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Asians are to be seen on classical podiums across America, but, as the author notes in a profile of Marian Anderson, a contralto whom Arturo Toscanini called a once-in-a-century voice, blacks make up just 2% of orchestral players.

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Tomas Berdych, the No. 4 seed from the Czech Republic, beat Spain's Marcel Granollers 7-5 6-4 while No. 9 seed Marian Cilic saw off South Africa's Kevin Anderson 6-2 6-3.

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