The Music Plays On — Margaret Bonds
2 min readJun 6, 2020
Margaret Bonds was born in Chicago in 1913 to the physician and leading civil rights activist, Monroe Alpheus Majors, and Majors’ second wife, Estelle C. Bonds. Their home was frequented by many leading black intellectuals, including the composers Florence Price and and Will Marion Cook. Bonds showed aptitude on the piano and began composing at age five. She would eventually study composition with Price and William Dawson.
