BROWN, ANNE WIGGINS
(*1915)> CONCERT SINGER
BROWN, ANNE WIGGINS. Concert singer (9 August 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland). She obtained her musical education at the Institute of Musical Art in New York (certificates in voice 1932, 1934; now Juilliard School of Music), where she studied with Licia Dunham; at Morgan College in Baltimore, Maryland; and at Columbia University Teachers College in New York. She first attracted wide attention in 1935 when she created the role of Bess (soprano) in Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess. She also sang…