![]() ![]() ![]() International popularity followed, and she augmented her concert and recital appearances with two Broadway shows, Anna Russell's Little Show (1955) and All by Myself (1960). With deliciously satirical spoofs, such as Anemia's Death Scene and her masterful Ring of the Neibelung ("I'm not making this up, you know") she gave her American debut at New York's Carnegie Recital Hall in 1947. On the encouragement of Sir Ernest MacMillan, she appeared several times with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in the 1940s. Russell's parodies of classical repertoire led to her first one-woman show at Eaton Auditorium in 1942. Moving to Canada in 1939, she made her Canadian radio debut on CFRB's Round the Marble Arch in 1940, performed on CBC's Jolly Miller Time, and with Syd Brown co-hosted the CBC's Syd and Anna, a largely improvised, conversational show in which fictitious sponsors were invented and topics flirted dangerously with "vulgarity." At 17, she attended the Royal College of Music, studying with Arthur Benjamin and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and graduated in musicology and composition. ![]() Born Ann Claudia Russell-Brown, her mother was a Canadian, her father a British officer. Anna Russell, comedienne, contralto, pianist (b at London d at Bateman's Bay, Australia). ![]()
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