[Adolphus C. Hailstork (b. 1941)]
UltimateCYFair.com
April 5, 2010
Michael Golden
"The Houston Choral Society, an 80-member professional quality community chorus, will conclude its 2009-2010 season with a special combined performance with the Prairie View A&M University choirs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at Foundry United Methodist Church, 8350 Jones Rd. in Houston.
"The full Houston Choral Society portion of the concert will include Deep River, My God Is A Rock, Ye Shall Have A Song and Shout for Joy by Adolphus Hailstork. Hailstork, a respected composer and professor of music at Old Dominion University in Virginia, wrote Set Me On A Rock (Songs of Sanctuary From the Great Flood) which the Choral Society commissioned and performed at the Wortham Center in May of 2008." [Adolphus C. Hailstork (b. 1941) is a prolific composer who has dozens of recordings in print. He is profiled at AfriClassical.com]
Houston Choral SocietySeason Ends
April 17, 2010
Shout for Joy
Adolphus Hailstork
African American Composer
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