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PITTSBURGH Kan AP Eva Jessye relic of American music is adding another chorus to her lifes song The composer at 64 is careful to remind the Lord daily Please be patient Im not finished yet Shes writing four books producing her oratorios foun ding another choir And Ive just got to see the trees leaf out next spring When people come by my office door and stare feel like the pyramids says the daughter of black slaves who was choral director Of George Gershwins Porgy and Bess in 1935 on Broadway She talks as she rummages through tin turkey pan that holds her voluminous correspondence Im looking for letter to Jimmy Carter she says Ive got something uplifting want to tell him He could use it these days Miss Jessye the Coffeyville Kan girl who went off to New York 60 years ago to make good and did has come home again Pittsburg State University has created museum for her 8500 pounds of memorabilia Kansas proclaimed Oct Eva Jessye Day THRIVES ON WORK And she thrives on 12hour work days and adoring students who werent even born when she drew her first Social Secur ity check Miss Jessye came back to the heartland because its the best place to be Everybodys got to have one place to call home feel needed and appreciated here Her parents were freed after the Civil War and as child sang for the joy of it Id make my songs You want to hear about trees Id write song about trees Birds Flowers Id write them all It was in my blood She says her mother suffered degradation so she could go to college at Western University in Kansas City Kan She wrote once paid your tuition That leaves me with twocent stamp And my Aunt May wrote Eva Im sending you your class dues Your uncle will do without shoes sOyou can get them paid There he was only an uncle by marriage and plain laboring man from Alabama who could hardly write his own name When people have that much confidence in you you cantfailthem She graduated in 1914 then taught in segregated schools in Oklahoma In 1922 she went to Baltimore and worked on black newspaper She sought her musical break in New York but producers told her we dont have any need for your kind of music Back then audiences expected black performers to sing nothing but Swanee River she says To support herself she ironed shirts for $13 week and saved 25 cents day to eat on During slave scenes in silent movies she sang in the wings Dont attach too much importance to refusal she says softly Sometimes it is only the wind that closes door Her friends were Bill Bojangles Robinson Paul Rob eson Ethel Waters Louis Armstrong Sophie Tucker and more who are gone now Her first break came singing in Broadway theatres as warrnup to films She formed choir The Original Dixie Jubilee Singers and its rich soul sound led it through the doors of producers all along the Great White Way It played the Major Bowes Family Radio Hour for year and in 1927 Miss Jessye founded the choral group that bore In 1929 she helped score and was choir director for the King Vidor film Hallelujah and two years later NBC aired her epic folk oratorio Paradise Lost and Regained It was inspired by copy of John Miltons Paradise Lost she had fished out of trash can She was singing and swinging in Harlem in its heyday as American black stars began to twinkle across the in ternational sky She went to Paris and visited Josephine Baker then came back and rode with her choir on bus through the segregated South Duke Ellington asked her advice In 1934 George Gershwin sought her out to be choir direc tor for his opera Porgy and Bess By then she had made the big time There was scene where the washerwoman walks out on the stage No one would do it so volunteered told the other blacks they were there doing opera because their mothers washed clothes chopped cotton bowed low suf fered and labored to get them there Then they began to see believe in keeping the dignity of your background She walked right behind Rev Martin Luther King Jr in the 1963 civil rights march on Washington DC and 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