Ella Fitzgerald, Vocalist, organized by the California African American Museum and curated by Redell Hearn, California African American Museum Museum Curator, is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Ella Fitzgerald, Vocalist , recreates Fitzgerald s backstage dressing room in the 1940 s, and provides a setting for many of her prized possessions including one of the singer s 14 Grammy Awards, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of American History. As part of the lecture, Cantor will screen a specially produced, rarely seen, presentation of Fitzgerald in concert.
Admission is free.
5 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 213.