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(Bonds, Margaret) Van Vechten, Carl

Portrait Photograph of Margaret Bonds

Apx. 13 x 9 inches, New York: October 10, 1956. Fine.

Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) was a gifted Afro-American composer and pianist whose close collaboration with Langston Hughes resulted in the most popular of her art songs, the cycle “Three Dream Portraits”. She is also the rarely acknowledged composer of the famous spiritual arrangement, “He's Got the Whole World in His Hands.”

Item #56148       Price: $750.00
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