... told her: "A voice like yours is heard once in a hundred years."" D.C. Concert And then an exciting opportunity came along. In 1936, Marian was invited to sing in Washington D.C. at the White House for President and Mrs. Roosevelt. A few years later, in 1938, Howard University asked Mr. Hurok to arrange another Washington D.C. concert. Marian also wanted to come back to the Nation ... Constitution Hall was the only hall in Washington D.C. that would hold the expected amount of people for the concert, Mrs. Roosevelt, along with Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, Walter White, th...

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