Margaret Bonds

Join us on Sunday, April 27 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you music by American masters Margaret Bonds and William Grant Still, as well as Yuja Wang in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

As WRTI honors Women's History Month, hear an expansive range of music composed by women on our broadcast, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Michelle Cann's first solo piano album, 'Revival,' celebrates the music of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. It's a noble gesture executed with absolute conviction, as John T.K. Scherch notes in his Album of the Week review.

The Dessoff Choirs has a profound simpatico with Margaret Bonds’ mature compositional style, a glowing synthesis of African American and European concert music — never more stunning than on her late work 'Credo,' the centerpiece of a new album.

Brandie Inez Sutton will be the soprano soloist in Margaret Bonds' 'Credo' and Carl Orff’s 'Carmina Burana,' at Opera Philadelphia on Feb. 3 and 5. She stopped by WRTI to reflect on the living dimensions of Black history, and her own trajectory, with John T.K. Scherch.

February 1, 2021. A collection of classical music written by African-American women over the last century is a jewel—an example of the depth and range of…

May 18, 2020. As Memorial Day approaches, we think of the service and sacrifice of so many to protect our country and keep us safe. Our classical album of…