Description
for voice and piano
Range: G#3 – E5
Text by Langston Hughes
John Michael Cooper, editor
Margaret Bonds composed this song in 1960. It is her final art song on a text of Langston Hughes. Both Bonds and Hughes were involved with the blues as an art form throughout their careers. Editor Michael Cooper writes: It is only fitting that Margaret Bonds’ final art song on a text by Hughes was a blues song about the blues, written in an idiom that reflected the blues.
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