Marian Anderson Award

The Marian Anderson Award was originally established in 1943 by African American singer Marian Anderson after she was awarded the $10,000 Bok Prize that year by the city of Philadelphia. Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers; recipients of which include Camilla Williams (1943, 1944), Nathaniel Dickerson (1944), Louise Parker (1944), Rawn Spearman (1949), Georgia Laster (1951), Betty Allen (1952), Gloria Davy (1952), Judith Raskin (1952, 1953), Shirlee Emmons (1953), Miriam Holman (1954), Willis Patterson (1956), Shirley Verrett (1957), Billie Lynn Daniel (1963), and Joyce Mathis (1967). Eventually the prize fund ran out of money and it was disbanded. Florence Quivar was the last recipient of this earlier award in 1976.

In 1990 the award was re-established and has dispensed $25,000 annually. In 1998 the prize was restructured with the "Marian Anderson Award" going to an established artist, not necessarily a singer, who exhibits leadership in a humanitarian area. A separate prize, the "Marian Anderson Prize for Emerging Classical Artists" is given to promising young classical singers.^[1]

Awardees by year:^[2]

1990 – Sylvia McNair
1991 – Denyce Graves
1992 – Philip Zawisza
1993 – Nancy Maultsby
1994 – Patricia Racette

1995 – Michelle DeYoung
1996 – Nathan Gunn
1997 – Marguerite Krull
1998 – Harry Belafonte
1999 – Gregory Peck

2000 – Elizabeth Taylor
2001 – Quincy Jones
2002 – Danny Glover
2003 – Oprah Winfrey
2005 – Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis

2006 – Sidney Poitier
2007 – Richard Gere
2008 – Maya Angelou and Norman Lear^[3]
2009 – Bill Cosby
2011 – Mia Farrow

References

↑ About the Award, MarianAndersonaward.org
↑ Marian Anderson Award: Past Honorees, MarianAndersonaward.org
↑ Rickey, Carrie (2008-11-18). "Angelou, Lear get Marian Anderson Award". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on November 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-22.

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