John Malveaux: Margaret Bonds’s setting of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is an 'African American woman – settings of a White man’s words'

John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

Composer Margaret Bonds’s setting of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost is an 'African American woman – settings of a White man’s words' (Dr. Michael Cooper).

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.  

Click on link to hear Justin Hopkins & Jeanne-Minette Cilliers perform Margaret Bonds song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z76f-MqeaFg&feature=youtu.be