Margaret Bonds

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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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He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Margaret Bonds): He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
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He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands (Margaret Bonds)
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He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand - Arr.: Margaret Bonds
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Messiah Hwv56, (Part 2): Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder (Chorus)
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Three Dream Portraits - I. Minstrel Man (Margaret Bonds)
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Three Dream Portraits - II. Dream Variation (Margaret Bonds)
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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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