- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 58 min., 44 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Bertha Hope
- Bertha Hope
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 997168693
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bertha Hope.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
035844
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2007 November 1.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 November 29.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Jazz Pianist.
- Added Author
Hope, Bertha, interviewee.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.