(MUSIC) JONES SISIERETTA Grand Musical Concert Mme Sisierett

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(MUSIC.) JONES, SISIERETTA. Grand Musical Concert. Mme. Sisieretta Jones, "the Black Patti." Oak Street A. M. E. Zion Church, Thursday April 27, 1893. Broadside, 9-7/8x6 inches; paper lightly and evenly toned; engraved vignette of Mme. Jones Np, 1893

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Matilda Sisieretta Joyner Jones (1868-1933), sometimes called "The Black Patti (after the famed white soprano Adelina Patti) was the daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal minister in Providence Rhode Island. There she began singing in her father's church choir. In the late 1880's, her enormous talent got her accepted to the New England Conservatory of Music. At the age of twenty Jones made her New York debut at Steinway Hall, many concerts and tours followed, including a private performance for President Benjamin Harrison at the White House. In 1916, after a series of tours based on a contrived minstrel and classical opera program; Jones retired to her home in Providence where she died of cancer in 1933.