Women in Music Posters “E...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Jeanne Eagels
née Amelia Jeannine Eagles
b. 6-26-1890; Kansas City, MO
d. 10-3-1929; NYC

Jeanne Eagels, most noted for her role of ‘Sadie Thompson’ in the long running Broadway play Rain, and in several motion pictures such as The Letter (1929), was once a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies.

• Thanhouser - Jeanne Eagels

Emma Eames
b. 8-13-1865; Shanghai, China (raised in Maine)
d. 6-13-1952; NYC?

Soprano Emma Eames sang major lyric and lyric-dramatic roles in opera and had an important career in New York, London and Paris during the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century.

Fanny Elssler, 1846, Giclee Print

Fanny Elssler, née Franziska
b. 6-23-1810; Vienna
d. 11-27-1884; Vienna

Ballerina Fanny Elssler, considered one of the most talented and beautiful dancers of the Romatic period, was invited, but chose not to participate in the “Pas de Quatre”.

• Fanny Elssler by Ivor Guest

Gloria Estefan in Press Room at Grammy Awards, Photographic Print

Gloria Estefan
b. 9-1-1957; Havana, Cuba

Singer, songwriter, and actress Gloria Estefan is known as the “Queen Of Latin Pop”.

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Madame Lillian Evanti
née Lillian Evans
b. 8-12-1890/91; Washington, DC
d. 12-6-1967; Washington, DC

Soprano Lillian Evanti was the first African-American to develop a professional career in grand opera. A graduate of Howard University she studied and performed in many of the principal opera houses in France and Italy between 1925 and 1928. In 1932 the Metropolitan Opera exclusionary racial policy made it impossible for her to perform there; she did give a recital at the Belasco Theater, the only prestige stage in Washington, D.C. to present performances by African-American artists to segregated audiences and two years later she gave a command performance at the White House. Evanti made several concert tours in Africa, where she was decorated for her cultural contributions in Nigeria, Liberia, and Ghana. In 1957 she wrote the independence song for Ghana.

Evanti, her stage name, is a combination of Evans and Tibbs, the last name of her husband.