Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Bertha Hope
Bertha Hope
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| Other authors / contributors: | Hope, Bertha, interviewee.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 November 1.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 November 29.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| 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.
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