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WETA
Television 26 - Radio FM91

July 27, 1988

Mr. James DePreist
Conductor
Portland Symphony Orchestra
813 Southwest Alder Street
Mezzanine Level
Portland, Oregon 97205

Dear Mr. DePreist:

I am writing to you on behalf of WETA-TV, the public television
station in Washington, D.C. We are in the process of developing
a 60-minute documentary on the life and career of your
distinguished aunt Ms. Marian Anderson.

We not only propose to chronicle the highlights in Ms. Andersons
illustrious career. Rather we wish to emphasize the enormous
impact she had on the music world and illustrate how equally
impressive her humanitarian efforts were. Therefore we propose
to produce a film profiling an extraordinary person whose legacy
is one of greatness.

The program will consist of a series of interviews with music
critics past and current members of the classical and operatic
music genres contemporaries of Ms. Anderson and family members.
Interview excerpts along with performance footage will be compiled along with contextual film footage of America and Europe
during the 1930s 1940s and 1950s to place her life against
the background of world events.

As Vice President of the Cultural Affairs Programming I will
oversee this project as Executive Producer and will supervise a
top ranked staff yet to be determined. However the necessary
production team identified thus far would consist of a production
consultant producer writer and researcher all with experience
in successfully developing historical and performance
documentaries. I have spent 20 years in public television
production program development program administration and
senior management. Among some of the program series the Cultural
Affairs Department at WETA has presented to the Public
Broadcasting Service are the following programs series
SMITHSONIAN WORLD IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE RIVER
JOURNEYS TREASURE HOUSES OF BRITAIN COMET HALLEY A CAPITOL
FOURTH TAKING CARE OF TERRIFIC (WONDERWORKS) HUEY LONG MATISSE
IN NICE SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE etc.

P.O. BOX 2626 Washington D.C. 20013 (703) 998-2600

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