Talk:Rudolf Bing
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.