ANDERSON, MARIAN. Concert singer ( in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). She came from a family of musical amateurs: her grandmother played house organ, her mother sang in church choirs as a girl, and her aunt sang in senior church choirs. Her nephew, James DePriest, became a symphony orchestra conductor. She began singing in the junior choir at her church, the Union Baptist, when she was six years old and joined the adult choir when she was thirteen. She first sang on...