by MARIAN ANDERSON (Contralto)
LIKE her fellow-artist, Paul Robeson ,
Marian Anderson was born to a heritage of such singing as originally inspired the ' Spirituals ' ; and where others have recourse to ' interpreta tion,' she has but to call upon her instinct. And, again like Robeson, this instinct carries Miss Anderson smoothly into the difficult field of lieder-singing, and again she triumphs. It is when we are privileged to hear such artists as Mr. Robeson and Miss Anderson that it is most strongly borne upon us how slanderous it is to attribute to the same source as the 'Spirituals' that item of American exports known to ' Boachcomber ' and his readers as swarnpstuff.'