March 3 - Margaret Bonds (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Margaret Bonds (3 March 1913 – 26 April 1972) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher. She was one of the first Black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United States.

[Previous entries for March 3 can be found here: 

• Henry Wood (2020) 
  
• Alfred Bruneau (2019)
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonds Market

Margaret Bonds, 

The composer-arranger,

Carried on in her craft

In spite of the danger

That she would be shunned

Because of her race;

She worked and she wrote

With grit and with grace.

She chiefly is known

For the songs she arranged,

But her legacy lies

In the world that she changed.

 

 

 

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