The HistoryMakers video oral history with Anne Brown.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 27 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312587
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Anne Brown
Anne Brown
Other authors / contributors:Brown, Anne, 1912-2009, interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Recorded Oslo, Norway 2006 November 16.
Recorded Oslo, Norway 2006 November 17.
Recorded Oslo, Norway 2006 November 18.
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Summary:Classical singer Anne Wiggins Brown was born on August 9, 1912, in Baltimore, Maryland. Brown attended and graduated from Frederick Douglass High School, and after graduation, Brown auditioned for the Juilliard School, was accepted and became the first African American to win the prestigious Margaret McGill Scholarship. Brown was the first person to play the titular "Bess" in the production of Porgy and Bess on Broadway. Brown persuaded playwright George Gershwin to change the title, originally just Porgy, to Porgy and Bess because of the importance of Brown's role. Brown went on to appear in the Broadway play Mamba's Daughters and in the film Rhapsody in Blue. In 1948, Brown settled in Oslo, Norway where she married her husband, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper, Thorleif Schjelderup. After asthma ended her singing career, she worked as a music teacher and also staged several operas in France and Norway. Brown passed away on March 13, 2009.