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Thread #98562 Message #1954936
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
01-Feb-07 - 04:18 PM
Thread Name: Looking for Eva Jessye, 'My Spirituals'
Subject: RE: Looking for Eva Jessye, 'My Spirituals'
Book details-
Jessye, Eva, 1927, "My Spirituals," 8 plus 81pp., quarto. Edited by Gordon H. Whyte and Hugo Frey. Contains 17 spirituals, in dialect, from Kansas. Robbins-Engel, New York.
She was the chorus trainer for George Gershwin's opera, "Porgy and Bess."
The Library of Congress has a copy; haven't checked but I'm pretty sure that the NY Public Library has a copy.
Katlaughing's prices, $200 up, is correct. Because of the association with Gershwin and "Porgy and Bess," not many copies are on offer.