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July 2, 2021 (July 2, 2021)

American Music article wins the Irving Lowens Article Award

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We want to offer our congratulations to American Music authors Katie A. Callam, Makiko Kimoto, Misako Ohta and Carol J. Oja for recently earning the Irving Lowens Article Award from […]

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January 7, 2015

Marian Anderson’s groundbreaking moment

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On January 6, 1955 contralto Marian Anderson became the first African American soloist to sing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. She appeared in the role of Ulrica (a Creole fortuneteller medium) in Verdi’s Un […]

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