Margaret Bonds

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Sat 26 May: The Hambleden Concerts 2012 - Music from around the World The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Hambleden Hambleden, RG9 6RT
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Sat 2 Jun: Music for a Royal Occasion Middleton Parish Church, New Lane, Middleton Manchester M24
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Events:
(1814) Ludwig van Beethoven: Premiere of Fidelio (final version), in Vienna, Austria, with Beethoven conducting.
(1971) Gottfried von Einem: Premiere of Der Besuch der Alten Dame, in Vienna, Austria.
(1988) Gottfried von Einem: Premiere of Symphony no. 4, in Vienna, Austria.
(1989) Peter Wallin: First performance of "Don´t ever do that again!!!", in Helsingborg, Sweden.
(2002) Peter Wallin: First performance of "Peace Song", in Billund, Denmark.

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Sheet music for Bonds

[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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Born: 3 March 1913 — Chicago — USA
Died: 26 April 1972 — Los Angeles — USA
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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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