#margaret-bonds — Public Fediverse posts
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Louise Toppin is a critically acclaimed soprano and well respected professor of vocal pedagogy at UMichigan. Here she is with Summer Storm composed by Margaret Bonds (https://youtu.be/-mYzHGJPxqs?si=c8NK9cM67tTe0EoI)
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#BHM Black Women in Music: Margaret Bonds
Composing her first song at just age five, #MargaretBonds would to on to build an award winning career displaying a mastery of composition and even opening a school dedicated to ballet and music!
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And finally, “The N*gro Speaks of Rivers” (https://youtu.be/kiCqOzabU6A?si=MC1K7YwmKdn7yIeK) performed by the greatest coloratura contralto Marian Anderson. This 1941 composition is based on the poem “The N*gro Speaks of Rivers” by Margaret Bonds’ muse, co-conspirator and close friend Langston Hughes, who she met in the late 1930s after she graduated from college where she fell in love with his writing.
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“Credo” (https://youtu.be/NInltwWFL74?si=gxC_TNWxYiEB5y9-) is a 7-part cantata written in 1967 set to the 1904 W. E. B. Du Bois' prose poem of the same name. It’s notable for its blending of Western classical and N*gro Spiritual traditions. Each of the movements in “Credo” begins with a statement of belief and then goes on to center black historical figures and settings in a way that marries both ancestry with modern times (extra images added for alttext)
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At only age 13, Margaret Bonds would study under titan of Black classical composition Florence Price. I featured compositions by Price here on #SymSat last year (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfu7fi6ne1JfkIezmX7Aj9YR&si=xEvEUbSFp-QrBdmn) #BlackHistoryMonth #MargaretBonds #FlorencePrice
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“The Montgomery Variations” (https://youtu.be/tvUWbJ137q4?si=IeB49mq1b58GC8dn) is a series of freestyle variations based on the traditional N*gro Spiritual “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”. As the same suggests, it’s a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and the activist work surrounding the fight for civil rights. It was composed in the wake of the 1963 firebombing of Birmingham, Alabama’s 16th Street Baptist Church and is considered to be her finest work. #SymSat #MargaretBonds #BlackHistoryMonth #MartinLutherKingJr
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Dr. Samantha Ege is a pianist, musicologist and music historian. Her work focuses on Black artistry in classical music. She has released 2 albums featuring music composed by Margaret Bonds: 2018’s “Four Women: Music for Solo Piano” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lfrzlIotARp2YlNPNW0W9eOWrFyLxLSvA&si=uHMIhmJfjghrzjLJ) and 2022’s “Black Renaissance Woman” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_knFS1hIZfn20kW1PX4tFysf9oArpj3KxI&si=aR7-oeiVPAgSpC3k).
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“Spiritual Suite for Piano” (https://youtu.be/kq1JGQ99ipg?si=o-dZQN6t7SiQRVHj) was composed/arranged/re-arranged in the 1930s and 1940s based on multiple traditional N*gro Spirituals. Despite being Margaret Bonds’s most known piece only the final movement was published during her lifetime. The entire piece was not published until 2020 after it had been re-discovered by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Music professor Dr. Louise Toppin.
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Margaret Bonds (March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972)🇺🇸 was a Chicago-born composer, pianist, organist and music educator. The daughter of an artistic family, She was the first Black American woman to perform with the all-White and all-male Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the first Black American women to have her music broadcast on European radio and to achieve recognition amongst American classical musicians.
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Margaret Bonds (March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972) was a composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher. She’s one of the first Black female composers to gain notoriety in the USA and is best known for her arrangements of Black American spirituals & collaborations with Langston Hughes
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