BONDS, MARGARET ALLISON. Composer (3 March 1913 in Chicago, Illinois; 26 April 1972 in Los Angeles, California). She came from a musical family: her mother, Estella Bonds, was a church organist and music teacher. She began piano study at the age of five, at first with her mother, then with local teachers Martha Anderson and T. Theodore Taylor. She obtained her musical education from Northwestern University (B. Mus., M. Mus.), where she studied with Emily Boettcher Bogue, and at the...