Composer Eva Jessye
Eva Jessye
Living place: Kansas
Birthday: 20-1-1895
Global rank: #74593
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Who is Composer Eva Jessye?
Best known for her original music directed productions by George Gershwin and the operas Virgil Thomson Porgy and Bess (1935) and The Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), she is also remembered as the internationally renowned female lead. First African-American choir. Also a composer, she was responsible for a 1931 choral work titled The Life of Christ in Negro Spirituals, as well as for a 1927 collection of Choral Agreements of her traditional spirituals. While in New York, she performed in a Eugene Ormandy-conducted musical program at the Capitol Theatre.
Best known for her original music directed productions by George Gershwin and the operas Virgil Thomson Porgy and Bess (1935) and The Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), she is also remembered as the internationally renowned female lead. First African-American choir. Also a composer, she was responsible for a 1931 choral work titled The Life of Christ in Negro Spirituals, as well as for a 1927 collection of Choral Agreements of her traditional spirituals. While in New York, she performed in a Eugene Ormandy-conducted musical program at the Capitol Theatre.
After attending both Western University (in Kansas) and Langston University (in Oklahoma), she was appointed choir director at Morgan State College Maryland.
Born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, she later lived and worked in New York, New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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She served as choir director for the 1929, King Vidor -directed MGM feature Hallelujah!
She served as choir director for the 1929, King Vidor -directed MGM feature Hallelujah!
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When was Composer Eva Jessye born?
Eva Jessye was born in 20-1-1895, death year is , at the age of 129.
Where is Composer Eva Jessye's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Eva Jessye was born in Kansas, . Là Composer, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Eva Jessye's global rank is 74593 and whose rank is 741 in list of famous Composer.
Eva Jessye was born in 20-1-1895, death year is , at the age of 129.
Where is Composer Eva Jessye's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Eva Jessye was born in Kansas, . Là Composer, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Eva Jessye's global rank is 74593 and whose rank is 741 in list of famous Composer.
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Birthday Eva Jessye (20-1) in history
- Day 20-1 year 1801: John Marshall was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Day 20-1 year 1841: As a result of the First Opium War, Hong Kong was ceded to the British.
- Day 20-1 year 1942: The Nazis formulated their "Final Solution" regarding the Jews at the Wannsee Conference.
- Day 20-1 year 1964: The Beatles released their first album in the United States, Meet the Beatles.
- Day 20-1 year 1981: President Reagan became the oldest president to take office (69 years and 349 days).
- Day 20-1 year 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- Day 20-1 year 2009: Hundreds of thousands of people watched in front of the Capitol as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are sworn into office. Obama makes history as the first African-American U.S. president.
- Day 20-1 year 2012: Singer Etta James died less than a week before her 74th birthday.
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