The first Afro-American soprano?
mainThe day before Leontyne Price turns 90, the Smithsonian magazine has published a feature on Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, a freed slave who made her New York debut in a hall built for Jenny Lind.
Greenfield’s tour did more than prove to white audiences that black performers could sing as well as their European peers. Her tour challenged Americans to begin to recognize the full artistry – and, ultimately, the full humanity – of their fellow citizens.
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