Louise Toppin is a critically acclaimed soprano and well respected professor of vocal pedagogy at UMichigan. Here she is with Summer Storm composed by Margaret Bonds (https://youtu.be/-mYzHGJPxqs?si=c8NK9cM67tTe0EoI)
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“Spiritual Suite for Piano” (https://youtu.be/kq1JGQ99ipg?si=o-dZQN6t7SiQRVHj) was composed/arranged/re-arranged in the 1930s and 1940s based on multiple traditional N*gro Spirituals. Despite being Margaret Bonds’s most known piece only the final movement was published during her lifetime. The entire piece was not published until 2020 after it had been re-discovered by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Music professor Dr. Louise Toppin.
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