The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bertha Hope.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 58 min., 44 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.315
Subjects

Other author/creatorHope, Bertha, interviewee.
Other author/creatorJones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Other author/creatorBurghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Bertha Hope
Portion of title Bertha Hope
Abstract Jazz pianist Bertha Hope, also known as Bertha Hope-Booker, was born on November 8, 1936in Los Angeles, California. Raised in western Los Angeles, Hope-Booker attended Emanuel Arts High School and studied piano at Los Angeles Community College. She received her B.A. degree in early childhood education from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Hope served as artist-in-residence at the New Jersey State Council on the Arts where she performed in state-wide New Jersey music workshops. She married her late husband, Elmo Hope, in 1957. She later married Walter Booker, Jr. and the two worked to keep the music of Elmo Booker alive through a tribute ensemble called ELMOllenium and The Elmo Hope Project. In addition, Hope-Booker led The Bertha Hope Trio which toured extensively throughout Japan. She also taught an advanced jazz ensemble at The Lucy Moses School and an Introduction to Jazz program at Washington Irving High School in New York.
CreditsVideographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Performer Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2007 November 1.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2007 November 29.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2007.315 HistoryMakers

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