It saved this violist’s life during the Great Depression.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen told the great African-American mezzo-soprano Barbara Conrad in the 1970s that her singing might make the difference between life and death for someone in the audience.
Miss Conrad was one of the students who broke the color barrier at the University of Texas.
I can believe her singing might make that difference.
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