Margaret Bonds

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Born: 3 March 1913 — Chicago — USA
Died: 26 April 1972 — Los Angeles — USA
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  • Troubled Water
  • He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand
  • Three Dream Portraits
  • Credo
  • Shakespeare in Harlem
  • Ballade of the Brown King
  • Little David, play on your harp
  • The Pasture
  • Songs of the Season

Life

Margaret Allison Bonds was an African American composer, pianist and musical director. She collaborated with the poet Langston Hughes on cantatas, musicals and song cycles. She studied Composition at Juilliard after earning her B.A. and M.A. at Northwestern Unviersity. "Troubled Water" is probably her most famous work and is based on the spiritual "Wade in the Water". Bonds won the Wanamaker Prize in 1932 for her song "Sea Ghost". Her works include the musical "Shakespeare in Harlem" and the cantata "Ballade of the Brown King".

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Sat 1 Jun: Action Painting: The Edges of Sound Baruch Performing Arts Center
Sat 8 Jun: Symphony No 5 St Johns, Smith Sq, London, SW1P 3HA
Fri 14 Jun: Day of Wrath "The Revelation"- concert in Bucharest Cinema Patria, Bulevardul Magheru 12-14, Bucuresti, Romania
Sat 15 Jun: A North East Choral Garland The Ave, Washington, Tyne and Wear NE38 7LE
Sat 15 Jun: Viva Vivaldi! Bristol Cathedral College Green Bristol
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[details ←] Go Tell It in the Mountain, piano, vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Hold On, choral, vocal,
[details ←] Joshua Fit Da Battle of Jericho, piano, vocal,
[details ←] He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, piano, vocal,
[details ←] Ezek’el Saw the Wheel, piano, vocal,
[details ←] I Got A Home in That Rock
[details ←] Ezekiel Saw Th Wheel
[details ←] Ezekiel Saw Th Wheel
[details ←] Go Tell It On the Mountain, piano, vocal,
[details ←] He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
[details ←] He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
[details ←] Hold On
[details ←] Hold On
[details ←] I Got A Home in That Rock
[details ←] Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
[details ←] Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
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