Rediscovering Margaret Bonds : Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs.

Edited by Louise Toppin. A large collection of songs for voice and piano by Bonds, covering several different genres. With an editor's foreword. Contents: Art Songs: Birth (Langston Hughes) -- Bound (Margaret Bonds) -- Even In The Moment (Edna St. Vincent Millay) -- Feast (Edna St. Vincent Millay) -- Hyacinth (Edna St. Vincent Millay) -- Pasture (Robert Frost) -- Pot Pourri (Janice Lovoos) -- Go Back To Leanna -- No Man Has Seen His Face -- Touch The Hymn Of His Garment -- Songs of the Seasons (Langston Hughes) -- Young Love In Spring -- Poème D’Automne -- Winter Moon -- Summer Storm -- Sonnet: I Know My Mind (Edna St. Vincent Millay) -- Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Edna St. Vincent Millay) -- Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (Robert Frost) -- The Negro Speaks Of Rivers (Langston Hughes) -- To A Brown Girl Dead (Countee Cullen). Spirituals: Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals -- Sit Down Servant -- I’ll Reach To Heaven -- Dry Bones -- Lord I Just Can’t Keep From Cryin’ -- You Can Tell The World -- Gwine Up -- He Never Said A Mumblin’ Word -- Hold The Wind (high) -- Hold The Wind (low) -- Little David Play On Your Harp -- Peter Go Ring Dem Bells -- Rise Up Shepherd -- Run Sinner Run -- Steady Jesus Listenin’ -- This Little Light Of Mine. Musical Theatre and Popular Songs: April Rain Song (Langston Hughes) -- -- Be A Little Savage With Me (Langston Hughes) -- Georgia (with Joe Davis and Andy Razaf) -- No Good Man (Langston Hughes) -- Peachtree Street (with Joe Davis and Andy Razaf) -- Spring Will Be So Sad (with Harold Dickinson) -- Tropics After Dark -- Cowboy From South Parkway (Langston Hughes) -- I’ll Make You Savvy (Langston Hughes) -- Lonely Little Maiden by the Sea (Langston Hughes) -- The Way We Dance in Harlem (Langston Hughes).

1 score (242 p.); 28 cm.
Spiral

Language: English
Edition Number: CVR 5268
Distributor Number: CVR5268