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Google News: KCC presents Two Sistas and a Brotha concert on February 26
[Battle Creek Enquirer] - The concert will feature works by such notable composers as H. Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Florence Price, and Dominic Dousa. Much of the music will feature the texts of great African American poets such as Langston Hughes, Paul Lawrence Dunbar and
Drexel Concert Band plays at the Kimmel Center
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[phillyBurbs.com (blog)] - Drexel faculty member, Baritone Perry Brisbon, will also present Margaret Bonds' Dream Variation. The Coleman commissions involve a consortium of 25 university bands, including Yale, Clemson, Morgan State, and Auburn, and were initiated by Drexel.
Survey of American vocal music brings optimism
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[Sarasota Herald-Tribune] Scott Joplin and Charles Ives as well as less familiar names such as Francis Hopkinson, Margaret Bonds, Elinor Remick Warren, Jean Berger and Michael Daugherty (whose “Letter to Mrs. Bixby,” set to a text by Abraham Lincoln, was stunning).
Bank Facade, Statues and a Baritone
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[New York Times] - Among the finds were Virgil Thomson's powerful rendering of Blake's “Tyger, Tyger”; Paul Bowles's evocative “Blue Mountain Ballads”; and spirited, richly melodic settings of Langston Hughes poems by Margaret Bonds (“The Negro Sings of Rivers”) and Jean
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