Not Lost in Translation: The Life of Clotilde Arias
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Not Lost in Translation: The Life of Clotilde Arias
This exhibition is about Clotilde Arias, a Peruvian immigrant who came to New York City in 1923 at age twenty-two to study music. Decades later she translated the national anthem into the official Spanish version at the request of the U.S. government. Arias died in 1959 in Manhattan at age fifty-eig…