Talk:Rudolph Bing

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During his long and triumphant tenure, he opened the house to African-Americans, with Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price as the most prominent examples.

  • To say that Bing "opened the house to African-Americans" is to imply that a closed-house policy had been in place and that Bing changed that policy. Is that, in fact, the case?
  • Is a house opened from within or from without? Some might argue that Marian Anderson is the one who "opened the house to African-Americans."
  • The house can be "opened" only once; the house wasn't "re-opened" for Leontyne Price.
Hence, my edit: During his long and triumphant career, Marian Anderson became, on January 7, 1955, the first African American to sing at the house.

ForDorothy 20:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Agree with your statements above. Nothing wrong with your addition except the ghastly grammar. I've cleaned it up and moved it to a better place. Vivaverdi 00:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

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