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An important day in history! The great Marian Anderson’s Metropolitan Opera debut - January 7, 1955 as Ulrica in Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera”.

Go Beyond the Liner Notes -- Learn more about the mind-blowing poets, whose work inspired Price's art songs

Karen Slack
Michelle A. Cann
Tamara Wright Acosta
Azica Records

Beyond the Liner Notes | ONEcomposer Liner notes and scholarship related to Beyond the Years, ONEcomposer's inaugural album, featuring unpublished songs of Florence Price.

The Sea Ghost, by Margaret Bonds

Performed by Karen Slack, soprano, and Erika Switzer, piano

Recorded March 5, 2022 at Ithaca College in collaboration with and Wiry Cries

Karen Slack
Erika Switzer

The Sea Ghost, by Margaret Bonds Karen Slack, sopranoErika Switzer, pianoRecorded at Ithaca College on March 5, 2022

This is gonna be a PARTY - check it out, attend events, and enjoy some amazing music and stories

This September, Opera Philadelphia kicks off a new initiative centering Black creators through a two-year exploration and celebration of composers Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. "Sounds of America: Price and Bonds" includes performances, workshops, educational deep dives, and other public events in partnership with organizations, venues, and artists across Philadelphia.
operaphila.org/soundsofamerica

Thank you to all of our amazing partners on Sounds of America: Price and Bonds!
The Marian Anderson Historical Society, Mighty Writers, ONEcomposer, Philly Typewriter, Singing City Choir,
Boyer College of Music and Dance - Temple University, Mann Center, Price Fest, Trinity Center for Urban Life, Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church, World Cafe Live

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Happy Margaret Bonds Day, so named by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley in 1967! Today ONEcomposer celebrates with the release of recently recorded performances by soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough of Bonds' settings of poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Join the celebration by sharing your performances of Bonds!

Many thanks to Hildegard Publishing Company and Michael Cooper!

Margaret Bonds Day (January 31, 2022) ONEcomposer presents: Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, and Ryan McCullough, pianist, performing Margaret Bonds' settings of the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. ...

Sunday, March 12, 1961

Dearest and Most Beloved Miss Anderson,

I meant to write this letter much sooner, but time has been at a premium lately - and I did not want to write it in a rush.

Let me try to express how much your wire and even more your presence meant at my Metropolitan Debut.

I want to tell you how much you contributed to the success of it. I have copied and respected your every move and musical and personal growth in this world since I was ten years old. Perhaps you don't remember, but I spoke to you on the night of your Metropolitan Debut and thanked you for what you had done for many others and myself.

Now, I write to thank you from the bottom of my heart again. Your name belongs with my Mama + Daddy in spirit and what it contributed to my peace of mind and sense of direction on the night of my debut.

I hope we can see each other in the Fall when I return to New York from Europe.

Until then - God Bless you and keep you. You were and still are my "Beacon Light" - straight ahead!!

With my warm love and profound admiration,

Leontyne Price

Have you explored our resource page: ONEcomposer.org/resources ?? Step into the world of Margaret Bonds and Florence Price through the amazing work of colleagues from around the world. Have you produced work on Bonds and Price, or do you know of additional resources that we might promote? Email us at [email protected]

Resources | ONEcomposer Important and educational resources pertaining to composers featured by ONEcomposer.

Another of the Creek Freedmen Spirituals, arranged by Bonds, and performed so beautifully by KAREN SLACK, Soprano and Michelle Cann...pause, watch, and listen

IV. Lord I Just Can't Keep From Cryin' (from Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals), arr. Margaret Bonds ONEcomposer and the Curtis Institute of Music partner with Karen Slack, soprano, and Michelle Cann, pianist, to present the music of Florence Price and Marga...