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Recordings and Performances of Music by Margaret Bonds
that I've Edited (1)

Margaret Bonds: Ave Maria, for soprano solo and piano (from Twelve Art Songs and Spirituals by Margaret Bonds, Florence B. Price, and Clarence Cameron White, for Medium High Voice. First Publication of Most Pieces. Ed. John Michael Cooper [Fayetteville, AR: Classical Vocal Reprints, 2025.])

  • Zoe Hein, soprano, and David Utterback, piano (YouTube) 

 

Margaret Bonds: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, for SATB Chorus A Cappella. Malvern, PA: Theodore Presser, 2026.

  • Dr. Justin Smith and the Portland Phoenix Chamber Choir (YouTube) 

  • St. Paul's Burlingame (YouTube) 

 

Margaret Bonds: Sleep Song. For SSAA Choir and Piano Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing, 2022. 

  • Performance by NYU Black Music Ensemblem conducted by Eric Williamson (YouTube) 

  • Performance by La Caccina (Chicago) (YouTube) 

  • Performance by the University of Texas Treble Ensemble, conducted by Holly Dalrymple (YouTube) 

  • Rehearsal video by the Southwestern University Chorale, conducted by Holly Dalrymple (YouTube) 

  • Performance by the Treble Ensemble of the Young New Yorkers' Chorus, dir. Alex Canovas (YouTube) 

  • Posthumous premiere by Melodia Women's Choir, Cynthia Powell, Director  (YouTube)

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Margaret Bonds: Joy (reconstructed version for SATB chorus with piano). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Co., 2024.

  • performance by Liminal Voices and Orchestra (YouTube) 

  • performance by Midland Camerata, UM-Flint Chorale & Chamber Singers, and The Carolyn Mawby Chorale, conducted by Matthew Abernathy (YouTube) 

  • performance by Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare (YouTube) 

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Margaret Bonds: Note on Commercial Theater (text by Langston Hughes). Worcester Mass.: Hildegard Publishing, 2026. ​

  • Sequina DuBose (soprano) and Gregory Thompson (piano) (YouTube) 

  • World-premiere videorecording as part of series #SongsofComfort by Justin Hopkins and Jeanne-Minette Cilliers (YouTube)

 

Margaret Bonds: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, for TTBB Chorus A Cappella. Malvern, PA: Theodore Presser, 2026.

  • World premiere, given by Dr. Holly Dalrymple conducting the University of Texas Treble Bass Chorus (YouTube)

 

Margaret Bonds: The Night Shall Be Filled with Music, for SATB chorus a cappella. Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2026. 

  • Posthumous premiere, given by Cantori New York, cond. Mark Shapiro (YouTube) 

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Margaret Bonds: Two Flowers. From Twelve Art Songs and Spirituals by Margaret Bonds, Florence B. Price, and Clarence Cameron White, for Medium-High Voice. First Publication of Most Pieces. (Fayetteville, AR: Classical Vocal Reprints, 2025.)

  • Zoe Hein, soprano, and David Utterback, piano (YouTube) 

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​Margaret Bonds: Three Early Songs: “Sleep Song,” The Sea Ghost,” and “Sunset.” Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing, 2025.

  • Sleep Song

    • Zoe Hein, soprano, and David Utterback, piano (YouTube)​

  • The Sea Ghost

    • Zoe Hein, soprano, and David Utterback, piano (YouTube) 

    • Zoe Renelda McCray, soprano and Elizabeth G. Hill, piano (YouTube)

    • Akosua Adwini-Poku, Mezzo Soprano and Kamilya Akhmetova, Piano (YouTube) 

    • Karen Slack, soprano and Erika Switzer, piano (YouTube) ​

  • Sunset

    • Zoe Hein, soprano, and David Utterback, piano (YouTube) 

    • Nicole Cabell, soprano and Lara Downes, piano (YouTube) ​

 

Margaret Bonds: Five Spiritual Songs in High and Low Keys (edited with Louise Toppin). [Ann Arbor]: Videmuus, 2024. 

  • Performance of complete set by Dr. Shana Mashego and Dr. Patrick Merrill, George Washington University, 24 October 2024 (YouTube)

  • Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit 

    • performed by Dr. Shana Mashego and Dr. Patrick Merrill (YouTube)​

  • Hand Me Down 

    • performed by Dr. Shana Mashego and Dr. Patrick Merrill (YouTube)

  • Nebuchadnezzar

    • performed by Dr. Shana Mashego and Dr. Patrick Merrill (YouTube)​

  • Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass 

    • ​performed by Dr. Shana Mashego and Dr. Patrick Merrill (YouTube)

  • You Can Tell the World (transposed to F major by the composer)

    • performed by Dr. Shana Mashego and Dr. Patrick Merrill (YouTube) ​

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Margaret Bonds: Four Piano Pieces: Flamenco, Gay Day, Lullaby, Sally's Waltz. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Co., 2026.

  • Flamenco

    • Performance by Kevin Wayne Bumpers (YouTube) 

    • live performance at PianoSpheres by Althea Waites (YouTube)

    • Althea Waites, piano (YouTube) 

  • Lullaby​

    • Performance by Kevin Wayne Bumpers (YouTube) ​

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Margaret Bonds: Fugal Dance (from Two Pieces for Piano Solo). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Co., 2022. 

  • live performance by Althea Waites (YouTube) 

  • Althea Waites, piano (YouTube) 

 

Margaret Bonds: CREDO (text by W.E.B. Du Bois). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Co., 2020.

  • Complete work:

    • Piano/vocal version:

      • Justin Smith and the Queens University Chamber Singers and Choral Union, with Sequina DuBose, soprano and Jarvis Miller, baritone (YouTube) 

      • David Christopher and the Delaware ChoralArts, with Jazmin Salaberrios, soprano and Grant Youngblood, Baritone (YouTube) 

      • Justin Smith and the Portland Phoenix Chamber Choir, with Nicole Joseph, soprano, Cristino Perez, baritone, and Kendra Kay Friar, piano (YouTube)

      • Frederick Binkholder and the Capitol Hill Chorale (Washington, D.C.), with Katerina Burton, soprano, Daniel J. Smith, bass-baritone (YouTube)

      • Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare, with Nicole Joseph, soprano, Marques Jerrell Ruff, bass-baritone, and Anton Nel, piano (YouTube)

    • Orchestral version:

      • Lois Ferrari, the Southwestern University Chorale, and the Austin Civic Orchestra, with soprano Natalie Joy Howard, and baritone Chaz Nailor (YouTube) 

      • Jennaya Robison and the combined choirs and orchestra of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory, with Christine Jobson, soprano, Evan Nelson, baritone (YouTube)

    • Arrangement by Dr. Allan Laiño for voices, brass, timpani, and organ:

      • Allan Laiño and the Congressional Chorus (Washington, D.C.), with Katerina Burton, soprano, and Christian Simmons, bass-baritone (YouTube)

  • Excerpts:

    • Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7

      • performed by the Govans Chancel Choir, with Jocelyn Taylor, and Elisheva Pront, sopranos, and Ben Ross, baritone, dir. Marie Herrington (YouTube) ​

    • No. 2 ("Especially Do I Believe in the Negro Race").

      • alkdaf (YouTube) 

      • ​Elena O'Connor, Soprano and Madrigalia, Cary Ratcliff, Artistic Director (YouTube)

      • Katerina Burton, soprano. Georgetown University Concert Choir, Professor Frederick Binkholder, director, Hojoon Kim, accompanist. (YouTube)

    • No. 5 ("I Believe in the Prince of Peace") ​

      • Performance by the Voce Chamber Singers conducted by David Mann (YouTube) ​

    • No. 6 ("I Believe in Liberty for All Men").

      • Shafiq Hicks, baritone with the the Bucks County Choral Society and Bucks County Community College Concert Choir,, cond. Thomas Lloyd (YouTube)

      • Marques Jerrell Ruff, baritone, with the Hartford Chorale, the Hartford Symphony, and the Hartford Chamber Players, conducted by Jack A. Pott (YouTube) 

      • Purev Arslan, baritone, with the Voce Chamber Singers conducted by David Mann (YouTube) 

      • Joshua Conyers, baritone. Georgetown University Concert Choir, Professor Frederick Binkholder, director, Hojoon Kim, accompanist. (YouTube)

    • Nos. 1 and 7 ("I Believe in God" and "I Believe in Patience"). Georgetown University Concert Choir, Professor Frederick Binkholder, director, Hojoon Kim, accompanist (YouTube)

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Margaret Bonds: The Sea Ghost (text by Frank Dempster Sherman). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Company, [2023]. (At press.)

  • Performance by Zoe McCray, soprano, and Elizabeth Hill, piano (YouTube) 

  • Performance by Zoe McCray, soprano, and Elizabeth Hill, piano (YouTube)

  • Posthumous live premiere by Nicole Jenkins, soprano, and Lorna Griffitt, piano, at 25th Anniversary Conference of The African American Art Song Alliance (YouTube)

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Margaret Bonds: No Man Has Seen His Face (text by Janice Lovoos). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Co., 2022. 

  • performed by The Stamford Chorale, dir. Billy Janiszewski (YouTube) 

  • Rehearsal video of the Choir of Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown, Texas directed by Dr. David Polley (YouTube)

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Margaret Bonds: Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Original keys and version for medium voice). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Co., 2020.

  • Women Have Loved before as I Love Now 

    • performed by Kyrie Laybourn, Soprano and Zerek Dodson, Piano (YouTube) ​

  • Four Songs (N.B.: this is a song cycle, not just a set or collection. To learn more, see here):

    • Complete cycle:

      • performed by Leberta Lorál, soprano and Jeffrey Sykes, piano (YouTube)

      • performed by Sarah Brailey, soprano and Janna Ernst, piano (YouTube)

      • performed by Sabreena Cherrington, soprano, and Eileen Downey, piano (YouTube)

      • performed by Camille Ortiz, soprano, and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

      • performed by Katerina Burton, soprano, and Michelle Pappenfuss, piano (YouTube)

  • No. 1: "Even in the Moment of our Earliest Kiss"

    • performed by Kyrie Laybourn, Soprano and Zerek Dodson, Piano (YouTube) 

    • performed by Noelle McMurtry, voice, and Michael Sheppard, piano (YouTube)

    • performed byLucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, with Ryan McCullough, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Cassandra Pinataro,soprano, with piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Camille Ortiz, soprano, and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Li Wen Weng, piano (YouTube)

  • No. 2: "Feast"

    • performed by Kyrie Laybourn, Soprano and Zerek Dodson, Piano (YouTube) 

    • performed by Noelle McMurtry, voice, and Michael Sheppard, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, with Ryan McCullough, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Camille Ortiz, soprano, and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Rose Hegele, soprano, and Julia Scott Carey, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Li Wen Weng, piano (YouTube)

  • No. 3: "I Know My Mind"

    • performed by Imani Oluoch (mezzo soprano) and Nomin Samdan (pianist) (YouTube) 

    • performed by Kyrie Laybourn, Soprano and Zerek Dodson, Piano (YouTube)

    • performed Shanice Skinner and Ensembl'arts (YouTube)

    • performed by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, with Ryan McCullough, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Camille Ortiz, soprano, and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Catherine Bringerud, piano (YouTube)

  • Nos. 3 and 4: "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" and "I Know My Mind"

    • performed by Leandra Dahm, soprano and David Eliakis, piano (YouTube) 

    • performed by Tara Dougherty, soprano, and Pierre-Nicolas Colombat, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Catherine Bringerud, piano. (YouTube)

  •  No. 4: "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"

    • performed by Soprano, Brooke Frampton and Piano, Jean Lin (YouTube) 

    • performed by Kyrie Laybourn, Soprano and Zerek Dodson, Piano(YouTube) 

    • performed by Cassandra Pinataro, soprano, and Chelsea Whitaker, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, and Ryan McCullough, pianist (YouTube)

    • performed by Camille Ortiz, soprano, and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Catherine Bringerud, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Rose Hegele, soprano, and Julia Scott Carey, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Olivia Doig, soprano, and Janna Williamson, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Nicole Cabell, soprano, and Lara Downes, piano (YouTube)

  • World premiere performance of all six songs by Camille Ortiz, soprano,and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

  • "Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now"

    • performed by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, with Ryan McCullough, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Camille Ortiz, soprano, and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Rose Hegele, soprano, and Julia Scott Carey, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Stephanie Feigenbaum, mezzo-soprano, and John Cuk, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Li Wen Weng, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Max Potter, mezzo-soprano, and Timothy Accurso, piano (YouTube)

  • "Hyacinth"

    • performed by Nisha Patel Caiozzi and pianist Anna Gebhardt (YouTube) 

    • performed by Kyrie Laybourn, Soprano and Zerek Dodson, Piano(YouTube) 

    • performed by Daniel Freeman, Bass/Baritone and David Bergstedt, Piano(YouTube) 

    • performed by Brooke Jones, soprano (YouTube) 

    • performed by Laura Marshall, soprano, with Elizabeth Manus, piano (YouTube) 

    • performed by Noelle McMurtry, voice, and Michael Sheppard, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, with Ryan McCullough, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Tyler Sullivan (YouTube)

    • performed by Camille Ortiz, soprano, and David Riley, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Olivia Doig, soprano, and Janna Williamson, piano (YouTube)

    • performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Catherine Bringerud, piano (YouTube)

 

​​Margaret Bonds: African Dance (text by Langston Hughes, Danse africaine). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Company, [2022].

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  • Nicole Joseph, soprano, David Kurtenbach Rivera, tenor, and Anton Nel, piano (YouTube)

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Margaret Bonds: When the Dove Enters In (text by Langston Hughes). Margaret Bonds Signature Series. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Company, 2021.

  • Performance by Marques Jerrell Ruff, baritone, with Nate Salazar, piano (YouTube) 

  • Performance by Laura Mercado-Wright, soprano, Tim O’Brien, bass, and   Gregory  Fletcher, bass, with Anton Nel, piano (YouTube)

  • Videorecording by David Neff (YouTube)

  • Videorecording by Davóne Tines and Lara Downes in episode of Lara Downes, AMPLIFY (YouTube) (learn more)

  • Videorecording Damien Jeter and Kira Whiting (YouTube)

  • World-premiere videorecording as part of series #SongsofComfort by Justin Hopkins and Jeanne-Minette Cilliers. (YouTube)

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Margaret Bonds:  The Montgomery Variations. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing Co., 2020.

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  • performed by Sir Kellen Gray  and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

  • performed by the Great Woods Symphony Orchestra (YouTube)

  • Guillaume Pirard conducting the Cornell Symphony Orchestra (conductor cam) (YouTube)

  • World-premiere authhorized recording by the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Scott Yoo (YouTube).

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Margaret Bonds: Two Works for Piano Solo. Worcester, Mass.: Hildegard Publishing, 2021

  • Tangamerican:

    • Live performance by Althea Waites at PianoSpheres (YouTube)

    • performance by Althea Waites (YouTube) 

    • Performance by Clipper Erickson, piano (YouTube) 

    • performance by Laura Louise Thornton (YouTube) 

    • Music video by Lara Downes (YouTube)

    • Livestream by Lara Downes (YouTube)

    • World-premiere recording by Lara Downes (Spotify)

 

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​Margaret Bonds: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (text by Robert Frost). [edition forthcoming] 

  • Videorecording of Version B by Justin Hopkins, bass-baritone, and Jeanne-Minette Cilliers Richards, piano as part of series #Songsofcomfort (YouTube)

  • Performance of both versions by Dana Zenobi, soprano, and Jonathan Levin, piano. (YouTube)

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Margaret Bonds: When the Dove Enters In, for voice and piano (text by Langston Hughes). Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Hildegard Publishing Company, [forthcoming]. Performed by Justin L. Hopkins, baritone, and Jeanne-Minette Cilliers, piano (preview).

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Margaret Bonds: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (text by Robert Frost). Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Hildegard Publishing Company, [forthcoming]. Both versions. Performed by Dana Long Zenobi, soprano, and Jonathan Levin, piano.

 

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