Margaret Bonds

Born: 3 March 1913, Chicago (USA)
Died: 26 April 1972, Los Angeles (USA)

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Music

• 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

Biography

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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