Eva Jessye Net Worth

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She earned her wealth from her successful career as a composer and conductor. Eva Jessye was an incredibly successful composer and conductor who had a net worth of $16 million. Born in 1895, she is best known for her work on the original productions of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts. She was the first African-American woman to achieve international acclaim as a choir conductor, and her success in this field earned her a great deal of wealth.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day	January 20, 1895
Birth Place	Kansas
Age	124 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign	Aquarius

💰 Net worth: $16 Million (2024)

About

Famous for music directing the original productions of the respective Virgil Thomson operas Porgy and Bess (1935) and Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), she is also remembered as America's first internationally-acclaimed female choir conductor of African descent.

Before Fame

After attending both Western University (in Kansas) and Langston University (in Oklahoma), she was appointed choral director at Maryland's Morgan State College.

Trivia

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 her choral arrangements of traditional spirituals. While in New York, she performed in a Eugene Ormandy-conducted music program at the Capitol Theatre.

Family Life

Born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, she later lived and worked in New York, New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Associated With

She served as choral director for the 1929, King Vidor-directed MGM feature Hallelujah!

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