Adolphus C. Hailstork (b. 1941)
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Adolphus Hailstork: Symphonies Nos. 2
and 3
Grand Rapids Symphony
David Lockington, Conductor
Naxos 8.559295 (2007)
Grand Rapids Symphony
David Lockington, Conductor
Naxos 8.559295 (2007)
Adolphus C. Hailstork is an
African American composer and professor who was born on April
17, 1941. His vocal and instrumental compositions are among the most frequently performed of those of any composer of African descent. He was interviewed by William J. Zick on April 13,
2010. The website has a link to a transcript. It can be read on AfriClassical Blog, and is excerpted on his
page at AfriClassical.com. Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma was a Professor of Music at Lawrence University
Conservatory when he wrote in the liner notes of
African Heritage Symphonic
Series, Vol. II;
Cedille CDR 90000 061 (2001):
"Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork was born in Rochester, New York in 1941, but spent most of his childhood in Albany, where he joined the choir of the Episcopalian cathedral. From this experience he developed an interest in vocal melodic writing that asserts itself not only in his choral works and art songs."
Adolphus Hailstork attended the
public schools of Albany, New York. He says in his interview: "Early on, I took a Music Aptitude Exam given by the school system in New York State where I grew up.” “Apparently they thought I had some aptitude for music. If you do, you wind up getting free instrumental lessons. I started out on the violin by the Fourth Grade, and then switched to Piano and Organ, sang in the Choirs, and that was all my early schooling."
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