Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895, Coffeyville, Kansas—February 21, 1992, Ann Arbor, Michigan)—the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Coffeyville is a City situated along the Verdigris River in the southeastern part of Montgomery County, located in Southeast Kansas Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. She is notable as a female choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was named after the anthology The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke in 1925 Her accomplishments in this field were historical for any woman regardless of ethnicity.
Jessye studied privately in Kansas, then with Will Marion Cook later in New York. Will Marion Cook (1869&ndash1944 was a composer and violinist from the United States. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous In 1926 she began to perform regularly with her choir, the Eva Jessye Singers, who were originally called the Dixie Jubilee Singers. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. She went to Hollywood in 1929 to train a choir for the film Hallelujah directed by King Vidor. King Wallis Vidor ( February 8, 1894 &ndash November 1, 1982) was an acclaimed American Film director whose career In 1933, she was in a production of Four Saints in Three Acts by Thomson. Four Saints in Three Acts is an Opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a Libretto by Gertrude Stein. In 1935, she was the choral director chosen by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin (September 26 1898 &ndash July 11 1937 was an American Composer. Porgy and Bess is an Opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, Libretto by DuBose Heyward, and
Further, Jessye composed her own pieces, including her folk oratorio Paradise Lost and Regained (1934), The Life of Christ in Negro Spirituals (1931), and The Chronicle of Job (1936). An oratorio is a large Musical composition including an Orchestra, a Choir, and soloists The oratorio was somewhat modeled after the Opera At the University of Michigan, she established the Eva Jessye African-American Music Collection. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research
External links
- Short biography at the University of Michigan
- Short biography at Pittsburgh State University
- Interview with Eva Jessye for the WGBH series, *Say Brother
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References
- The Music of Black Americans: A History. Eileen Southern. Eileen Jackson Southern (1920 in Minneapolis – October 13 2002 in Port Charlotte Florida) was an African American Musicologist, researcher W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition. ISBN 0-393-97141-4
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