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Especially Do I Believe: A Conductor’s Guide to Margaret Bonds’s Credo
Conclusion ty for nearly two generations, it appears that Bonds’s
In a 1965 letter to Shirley DuBois, the poet’s wid- wish is slowly coming true. Credo, along with the rest of
ow, Bonds looked forward to a time “when Credo will her considerable body of choral works and art songs,
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move all over the world.” Although it sat in obscuri- stand as an astonishing achievement of one of the past
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