Margaret Bonds

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

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[details ←] Go Tell It On the Mountain
[details ←] He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands Piano, Vocal,
[details ←] Didn’t It Rain?
[details ←] Ezekiel Saw the Wheel Piano, Vocal,
[details ←] I Got A Home In That Rock
[details ←] Joshua Fit Da Battle of Jericho Piano, Vocal,
[details ←] Go Tell It On the Mountain
[details ←] Hold On , SATB choir, choral, choral

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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He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand - Arr.: Margaret Bonds

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He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Margaret Bonds)

from: Naxos

Messiah Hwv56, (Part 2): Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder (Chorus)

from: EMI Classics

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