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Troubled Water
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Concert Band - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1836241
Composed by Margaret Bonds. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. This edition: pdf, streaming. 20th Century, Classical, Spiritual. 88 pages. John Ivor Holland #1395792. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1836241).Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) started her musical journey in her hometown Chicago, learning piano from her mother who was a charter member of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM). She developed meaningful relationships with many African American artists including Florence Price, who she took lessons from as well. She deeply admired the works of Langston Hughes which eventually led to their lifelong friendship and collaboration. One of her numerous achievements includes being the first African-American woman to solo with a major American orchestra. Despite facing ongoing racism in her career and her studies, she dedicated her life to civil rights activism and raising awareness for African-American art. Bonds’ contributions played a major role in re-establishing the presence of African-American sound and culture within American identity. Bonds arranged over fifty African-American spirituals for various instruments, one of which is the solo piano work 'Troubled Water', based on the spiritual 'Wade in the Water'; the context of the spiritual is associated with Songs of the Underground Railroad, work songs used by enslaved people in the nineteenth century to share coded information for escape. This arrangement for concert band is part of an ongoing project to being more music by women into the worldwide repertoire. #ArrangeMeGoals2023.
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