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Death day
February 21, 1992 (97 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
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Celebrities born on January 20
Born in 1895
Aquarius named Eva
Composers from Kansas
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First name Eva
Eva Jessye
Eva Jessye is an American conductor, the first black woman to be internationally recognized as a professional choir director. She was best known as a choirmaster during the Harlem Renaissance. She has created her own choir, which is very popular. His professional influence dates back decades throughout his teaching. Her achievements in this field are historic for any woman. She collaborated in groundbreaking productions, directed her choir and worked with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein in Four Saints in Three Acts, and as Music Director with George Gershwin in the groundbreaking opera Porgy and His bess.
BornJanuary 20, 1895, Coffeyville, Kansas
DiedFebruary 21, 1992, Ann Arbor Michigan
Known forChoral conductor

About Eva Jessye

Composer Eva Jessye was born on January 20, 1895 in Kansas, United States (She dies at the age of 97, on February 21, 1992).

She is regarded as America's first globally acclaimed female choir conductor of African heritage, having music directed the initial productions of the Composer George Gershwin and Composer Virgil Thomson operas Porgy and Bess (1935) and Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), respectively.

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Eva Jessye before becoming famous

Eva Jessye was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Sea-Goat), and 1895 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Goat (羊).

She was named choir director at Maryland's Morgan State College after attending both Western University (in Kansas) and Langston University (in Oklahoma).

Achievement of Eva Jessye

She composed a choral composition titled The Life of Christ in Negro Spirituals in 1931, as well as a compilation of her choral arrangements of traditional spirituals in 1927. She appeared at the Capitol Theatre in New York in a Eugene Ormandy-conducted music concert.

Eva Jessye's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She was born and reared in Lawrence, Kansas, and then moved to New York City and Ann Arbor, Michigan, to live and work.

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She was the chorus conductor for the 1929 MGM film Hallelujah! directed by Director King Vidor.

King Vidor (1894 - 1982) (Director)
King Vidor (1894 - 1982)

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Eva Jessye Income & Net worth

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