Margaret Bonds
Biografía del artista Margaret Bonds
Margaret Allison Bonds March 3 1913 – April 26 1972 1 Was An American Composer And Pianist. One Of The First Black Composers And Performers To Gain Recognition In The United States She Is Best Remembered Today For Her Frequent Collaborations With Langston Hughes. A Native Of Chicago Bonds Grew Up In A Home Visited By Many Of The Leading Black Intellectuals Of The Era Among Houseguests Were Soprano Abbie Mitchell And Composers Florence Price And Will Marion Cook. Bonds Showed An Early Aptitude For Composition Writing Her First Work Marquette Street Blues At The Age Of Five. Her First Study In Music Came When She Took Piano Lessons From Her Mother. While Still In School She Studied Composition With Price And With William Dawson. Bonds Worked As An Accompanist For Dances And Singers In Various Shows And Supper Clubs Around Chicago She Also Copied Music Parts For Other Composers And Became Involved With The National Association Of Negro Musicians. Upon Her High School Graduation Bonds Became One Of The Few Black Students At Northwestern University. Her Song "Sea-Ghost" Won A Wanamaker Award In 1932 Two Years Later At The Age Of 21 She Left Northwestern With A Bachelor's And Master's Degree Both In Music. She Opened A Short-Lived School The Allied Arts Academy At Which She Taught Art Music And Ballet. She Performed As A Pianist With Numerous Local Organizations Appearing In 1933 With The Chicago Symphony Orchestra And Performing Florence Price's Piano Concerto With The Women's Symphony Orchestra Of Chicago The Following Year. In 1939 She Moved To New York City There She Edited Music For A Living And Collaborated On Several Popular Songs. In 1940 Bonds Married A Probation Officer Named Lawrence Richardson The Couple Later Had A Daughter. While Living In New York Bonds Began Further Study In Piano And Composition At The Juilliard School She Also Began To Study Composition Privately With Roy Harris And Emerson Harper. She Also Attempted To Gain Lessons With Nadia Boulanger Who Upon Looking At Her Work Said That She Needed No Further Study And Refused To Teach Her. The Work That Bonds Showed Boulanger Was The Negro Speaks Of Rivers A Setting For Voice And Piano Of A Poem By Langston Hughes. Hughes And Bonds Were Great Friends And She Set Much Of His Work To Music. Bonds Continued To Take In Piano Students After Her Marriage And While She Was Still A Student. She Performed Too Gaining Work With Major Orchestras And Forming A Piano Duo With Gerald Cook. At The Same Time She Formed The Margaret Bonds Chamber Society A Group Of Black Musicians Which Performed Mainly The Work Of Black Classical Composers. Bonds Lived In Harlem And Worked On Many Music Projects In The Neighborhood. She Helped To Establish A Cultural Community Center And Served As The Minister Of Music At A Church In The Area. Among Bonds' Works From The 1950s Is The Ballad Of The Brown King A Large-Scale Work Originally For Voice And Piano But Later Revised For Chorus Soloists And Orchestra. To A Text By Hughes The Work Tells The Story Of The Three Wise Men Focusing Primarily On Balthazar The So-Called "brown King". A Large Work In Nine Movements The Piece Combines Elements Of Various Black Musical Traditions Such As Jazz Blues Calypso And Spirituals. The Piece Was First Performed In December 1954 In New York. Bonds Was Writing Other Works During This Period Of Her Career As Well Her Three Dream Portraits For Voice And Piano Again Setting Hughes' Poetry Were Published In 1959 Her D Minor Mass For Chorus And Organ Was First Performed In The Same Year. As An Outgrowth Of Her Compositions For Voice Bonds Later Became Active In The Theater Serving As Music Director For Numerous Productions And Writing Two Ballets. She Also Wrote Several Music-Theater Works Including Shakespeare In Harlem To A Libretto By Hughes This Premiered In 1959. In 1965 At The Time Of The Freedom March On Montgomery Alabama Bonds Wrote Montgomery Variations For Orchestra Dedicating It To Martin Luther King Jr.. Two Years Later She Moved To Los Angeles Teaching Music At The Los Angeles Inner City Institute And At The Inner City Cultural Center. Zubin Mehta And The Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra Premiered Her Credo For Chorus And Orchestra In 1972 Bonds Died Unexpectedly A Few Months Later Shortly After Her 59th Birthday.
50 Mejores Temas de Margaret Bonds - Frogtoon Música
Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water Margaret Bonds - Bright Star Margaret Bonds - Minstrel Man Margaret Bonds - Credo: No. 2, I Believe Margaret Bonds - The Negro Speaks Of Rivers Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: Montgomery Variations: I. Decision Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: I. Of The Three Wise Men Margaret Bonds - Tangamerican Margaret Bonds - Bonds: Songs Of The Seasons: No. 2, Winter Moon Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: VII. Benediction Margaret Bonds - Joy: Joy Margaret Bonds - Simon Bore The Cross: III. The Trial Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: II. They Brought Fine Gifts Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: VIII. That Was A Christmas Long Ago Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: III. Sing Alleluia Margaret Bonds - 3 Dream Portraits: No. 2, Dream Variation Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: V. Now When Jesus Was Born Margaret Bonds - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: IV. Mary Had A Little Baby Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: VI. Lament Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: VII. Oh, Sing Of The King Who Was Tall And Brown Margaret Bonds - Credo: No. 2, I Believe Arr. L. Downes For Solo Piano Margaret Bonds - Bright Star Arr. L. Downes Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: II. Dream Variation Margaret Bonds - Winter Moon Margaret Bonds - To A Brown Girl Dead Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: IX. Alleluia Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: Minstrel Man Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: I. Minstrel Man Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: VI. Could He Have Been An Ethiope? Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: IV. Dawn In Dixie Margaret Bonds - Bonds: "Songs Of The Seasons" Cycle: Winter Moon Margaret Bonds - Peach Tree Street Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: III. March Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: III. I, Too Margaret Bonds - 3 Dream Portraits: No. 1, Minstrel Man Margaret Bonds - Credo: V. I Believe In The Prince Of Peace Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: II. Prayer Meeting Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: V. One Sunday In The South Margaret Bonds - 3 Dream Portraits: No. 3, I, Too Margaret Bonds - Credo: II. Especially Do I Believe In The Negro Race Margaret Bonds - Credo: I. I Believe In God Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: I. Decision Margaret Bonds - Credo: III. I Believe In Pride Of Race Margaret Bonds - Credo: IV. I Believe In The Devil Margaret Bonds - Credo: VII. I Believe In Patience Margaret Bonds - Credo: VI. I Believe In Liberty Margaret Bonds - When The Dove Enters In Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits - I. Minstrel Man Margaret Bonds Margaret Bonds - Hold On50 Mejores Letras de Margaret Bonds - Frogtoon Música
Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Bright Star | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Minstrel Man | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: No. 2, I Believe | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Negro Speaks Of Rivers | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: Montgomery Variations: I. Decision | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: I. Of The Three Wise Men | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Tangamerican | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Bonds: Songs Of The Seasons: No. 2, Winter Moon | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: VII. Benediction | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Joy: Joy | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Simon Bore The Cross: III. The Trial | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: II. They Brought Fine Gifts | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: VIII. That Was A Christmas Long Ago | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: III. Sing Alleluia | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - 3 Dream Portraits: No. 2, Dream Variation | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: V. Now When Jesus Was Born | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: IV. Mary Had A Little Baby | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: VI. Lament | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: VII. Oh, Sing Of The King Who Was Tall And Brown | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: No. 2, I Believe Arr. L. Downes For Solo Piano | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Bright Star Arr. L. Downes | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: II. Dream Variation | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Winter Moon | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - To A Brown Girl Dead | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: IX. Alleluia | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: Minstrel Man | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: I. Minstrel Man | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - The Ballad Of The Brown King: VI. Could He Have Been An Ethiope? | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: IV. Dawn In Dixie | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Bonds: "Songs Of The Seasons" Cycle: Winter Moon | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Peach Tree Street | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: III. March | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits: III. I, Too | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - 3 Dream Portraits: No. 1, Minstrel Man | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: V. I Believe In The Prince Of Peace | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: II. Prayer Meeting | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: V. One Sunday In The South | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - 3 Dream Portraits: No. 3, I, Too | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: II. Especially Do I Believe In The Negro Race | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: I. I Believe In God | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations: I. Decision | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: III. I Believe In Pride Of Race | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: IV. I Believe In The Devil | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: VII. I Believe In Patience | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Credo: VI. I Believe In Liberty | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - When The Dove Enters In | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Three Dream Portraits - I. Minstrel Man Margaret Bonds | Lyrics Margaret Bonds - Hold On | Lyrics
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Margaret Allison Bonds March 3 1913 – April 26 1972 1 Was An American Composer And Pianist. One Of The First Black Composers And Performers To Gain Recognition In The United States She Is Best Remembered Today For Her Frequent Collaborations With Langston Hughes. A Native Of Chicago Bonds Grew Up In A Home Visited By Many Of The Leading Black Intellectuals Of The Era Among Houseguests Were Soprano Abbie Mitchell And Composers Florence Price And Will Marion Cook. Bonds Showed An Early Aptitude For Composition Writing Her First Work Marquette Street Blues At The Age Of Five. Her First Study In Music Came When She Took Piano Lessons From Her Mother. While Still In School She Studied Composition With Price And With William Dawson. Bonds Worked As An Accompanist For Dances And Singers In Various Shows And Supper Clubs Around Chicago She Also Copied Music Parts For Other Composers And Became Involved With The National Association Of Negro Musicians. Upon Her High School Graduation Bonds Became One Of The Few Black Students At Northwestern University. Her Song "Sea-Ghost" Won A Wanamaker Award In 1932 Two Years Later At The Age Of 21 She Left Northwestern With A Bachelor's And Master's Degree Both In Music. She Opened A Short-Lived School The Allied Arts Academy At Which She Taught Art Music And Ballet. She Performed As A Pianist With Numerous Local Organizations Appearing In 1933 With The Chicago Symphony Orchestra And Performing Florence Price's Piano Concerto With The Women's Symphony Orchestra Of Chicago The Following Year. In 1939 She Moved To New York City There She Edited Music For A Living And Collaborated On Several Popular Songs. In 1940 Bonds Married A Probation Officer Named Lawrence Richardson The Couple Later Had A Daughter. While Living In New York Bonds Began Further Study In Piano And Composition At The Juilliard School She Also Began To Study Composition Privately With Roy Harris And Emerson Harper. She Also Attempted To Gain Lessons With Nadia Boulanger Who Upon Looking At Her Work Said That She Needed No Further Study And Refused To Teach Her. The Work That Bonds Showed Boulanger Was The Negro Speaks Of Rivers A Setting For Voice And Piano Of A Poem By Langston Hughes. Hughes And Bonds Were Great Friends And She Set Much Of His Work To Music. Bonds Continued To Take In Piano Students After Her Marriage And While She Was Still A Student. She Performed Too Gaining Work With Major Orchestras And Forming A Piano Duo With Gerald Cook. At The Same Time She Formed The Margaret Bonds Chamber Society A Group Of Black Musicians Which Performed Mainly The Work Of Black Classical Composers. Bonds Lived In Harlem And Worked On Many Music Projects In The Neighborhood. She Helped To Establish A Cultural Community Center And Served As The Minister Of Music At A Church In The Area. Among Bonds' Works From The 1950s Is The Ballad Of The Brown King A Large-Scale Work Originally For Voice And Piano But Later Revised For Chorus Soloists And Orchestra. To A Text By Hughes The Work Tells The Story Of The Three Wise Men Focusing Primarily On Balthazar The So-Called "brown King". A Large Work In Nine Movements The Piece Combines Elements Of Various Black Musical Traditions Such As Jazz Blues Calypso And Spirituals. The Piece Was First Performed In December 1954 In New York. Bonds Was Writing Other Works During This Period Of Her Career As Well Her Three Dream Portraits For Voice And Piano Again Setting Hughes' Poetry Were Published In 1959 Her D Minor Mass For Chorus And Organ Was First Performed In The Same Year. As An Outgrowth Of Her Compositions For Voice Bonds Later Became Active In The Theater Serving As Music Director For Numerous Productions And Writing Two Ballets. She Also Wrote Several Music-Theater Works Including Shakespeare In Harlem To A Libretto By Hughes This Premiered In 1959. In 1965 At The Time Of The Freedom March On Montgomery Alabama Bonds Wrote Montgomery Variations For Orchestra Dedicating It To Martin Luther King Jr.. Two Years Later She Moved To Los Angeles Teaching Music At The Los Angeles Inner City Institute And At The Inner City Cultural Center. Zubin Mehta And The Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra Premiered Her Credo For Chorus And Orchestra In 1972 Bonds Died Unexpectedly A Few Months Later Shortly After Her 59th Birthday.
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