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Eva Jessye collection
- Title
- Eva Jessye collection, 1963-1992 (bulk 1973-1992).
- Author
- Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 233 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- .2 lin. ft. (1 box)
- Summary
- The Eva Jessye Collection contains clippings, citations, correspondence and programs that document Jessye's professional career and recognition in her field.
- Subjects
- Note
- Complementary collections: Helen Armstead Johnson Miscellaneous Theater Collection Sc MG 599; Thaddeus Drayton Collection Sc MG 389; Helen Brown Scrapbook Sc MG 520; Negro Actors Guild Records, Sc MG 259; Alice Childress Papers Sc MG 649
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Eva Jessye Collection University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Pittsburgh State University
- Biography (note)
- Eva Jessye, African American choral director, composer, arranger and music historian was born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1895. In 1914, she graduated from Western University of Kansas City with a degree in music and then went on to Langston University in Oklahoma. She moved to New York in 1926 and by 1930, Jessye had formed and directed a professional choir. She was the first musical director for the original production of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." Acknowledged as the first African-American woman to win international distinction as a director of a professional choir, Jessye was the recipient of numerous awards and honorary doctoral degrees throughout her life. She died at 97 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 233
- OCLC
- 857719919
- 857719919
- Author
- Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992.
- Title
- Eva Jessye collection, 1963-1992 (bulk 1973-1992).
- Biography
- Eva Jessye, African American choral director, composer, arranger and music historian was born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1895. In 1914, she graduated from Western University of Kansas City with a degree in music and then went on to Langston University in Oklahoma. She moved to New York in 1926 and by 1930, Jessye had formed and directed a professional choir. She was the first musical director for the original production of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." Acknowledged as the first African-American woman to win international distinction as a director of a professional choir, Jessye was the recipient of numerous awards and honorary doctoral degrees throughout her life. She died at 97 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Eva Jessye Collection Also located at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Pittsburgh State University
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 233