ISSUE 1
December 2000


MILKWOOD REVIEW




Adolphus Hailstork
COMPOSITION FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO:
mut. 1 from "American Landscape No.2"


Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at Manhattan School of Music under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, at the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and at Howard University with Mark Fax.

Dr. Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, various chamber ensembles, band, and orchestra. Among his compositions are Celebration which has been recorded by the Detroit Symphony; Out Of The Depths which won the 1977 Belwin-Mills Max Winkler Award presented by the Band Directors National Association; American Guernica which received first prize in the Virginia College Band Directors' 1983 national contest; and Mourn Not The Dead which received the 1971 Ernest Bloch Award for choral composition. Other well-known compositions include Celebration (overture for orchestra), Done Made my Vow (oratorio), I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (cantata), An American Port of Call (overture for orchestra), Epitaph (In Memorium MLK Jr.), Sonata da Chiesa (for string orchestra), Trio (for piano, violin and cello), and Trio Sonata (for piano solo).

During the 1980s the Boys Choir of Harlem and the piano duo Delphin and Romaine added music by Hailstork to their repertoire.

The 1990s began auspiciously when a consortium of five orchestras commissioned a piano concerto to be premiered by Leon Bates. Less than a year later, Dr. Hailstork received an award from the Barlow Endowment for Music commissioning a work for the Baltimore Symphony; in 1991 Celebration was performed by the Chicago Symphony led by Maestro Daniel Barenboim.

Dr. Hailstork is Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Norfolk State University in Virginia.



To order:
Symphonic Brotherhood - Music of African-American Composers

Hailstork: Spiritual Songs, etc / McCullough Chorale

Hailstork, Schuller, Zwilich, Dzubay / Louisville Orchestra








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