JESSYE, EVA

JESSYE, EVA. Choral conductor (20 January 1895 in Coffeyville, Kansas). She sang as a child and organized a girls' singing group when she was twelve years old. She obtained her musical education in the public schools of Coffeyville, Kansas, and St. Louis, Missouri; at Western University in Quindaro, Kansas (graduated 1914); and at Langston University in Oklahoma. Her career development was aided by Will Marion Cook , whom she first met when he brought a musical production to her home town,...