Composers
Adolphus Hailstork
1941 -About
Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the 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, piano, organ, various chamber ensembles, band, and orchestra. Significant performances by major orchestras (Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York) have been conducted by leading conductors such as James de Priest, Paul Freeman, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maezel, Jo Ann Falletta and David Lockington. Recent commissions include Rise for Freedom, an opera about the Underground Railroad, premiered in the fall of 2007 by the Cincinnati Opera Company, Set me on a Rock (re: Hurricane Katrina), for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Houston Choral Society (2008), and the choral ballet, The Gift of the Magi, for treble chorus and orchestra, (2009). In the fall of 2011,Zora, We’re Calling for You, a work for speaker and orchestra, was premiered by the Orlando Symphony. I Speak of Peace commissioned by the Bismarck Symphony (Beverly Everett, conductor) in honor of (and featuring the words of) President John F. Kennedy was premiered in November of 2013. Hailstork’s newest major works are Robeson, an operatic theater work (written for the Trilogy Opera Company of Newark, New Jersey), and Hercules(“the veriest dandy slave”) a concert overture for the Grand Rapids Symphony, which was premiered in October 2014. Current projects are Bound for the Promised Land for the Atlanta Festival (November 2016) and Ndemarafor the Myrelinques Festival of France (May 2017). Dr. Hailstork resides in Virginia Beach Virginia, and is Professor of Music and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk.
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Works by Adolphus Hailstork
Title | Collection | Voice Type | Range | Poet |
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A Charm at Parting | A Charm at Parting | Voice | C#4 - G5 | Mary Phelps |
A Cry | Lollipops | Soprano | Db4 - Ab5 | Sara Teasdale |
A Song: Thou Art The Soul of a Summer's Day | Soprano | D4 - G5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar | |
A Woman's Song | Soprano | B3 - Ab5 | Glen Allen | |
Answer July | Summer. Life. Song. | High | G4 - G5 | Emily Dickinson |
As Children Bid The Guest Goodnight | Summer. Life. Song. | High | Eb4 - Gb5 | Emily Dickinson |
Autumn Fires | Two Moods of Autumn | High | F4-A5 | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Christmas Everywhere | Three Simple Songs | High | D4 - G#5 | Phillips Brooks |
Create In Me, 1992 | High Voice | Eb4 - Bb5 | Biblical | |
Day | Five Dunbar Lyrics | Voice | A3 - G5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Debt | Lollipops | Soprano | Eb4 - G5 | Sara Teasdale |
Decisions | Songs of Love and Justice | High | Bb3 - Bb5 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Deep in the Dark | Ventriloquist Acts of God | High | C4 - Ab5 | Ellen Wise |
Difficulties | Songs of Love and Justice | High | D#4 - A5 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Finis | Voice | E4 - F5 | Waring Cuney | |
For My Unborn Son | I've Seen The Day | Soprano | Bb - A#5 | Robert J. Abrams |
Give Thanks to the Lord | Preach The Word | High | D4 - B#5 | Isaiah: 12: 4 - 6 |
Go Now To Your Dwelling Place | High | D4 - Ab5 | Eb4 - A5 | Apache Indian | |
Good Night | Four Love Songs | Tenor | G3 - Ab4 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Good Night | Five Dunbar Lyrics | Voice | C4 - F5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Good Night | Three Love Songs | High | Db4 - Ab5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
I Loved You | A Charm at Parting | Voice | B3 - F5 | Alexander Pushkin, trans. Zola Essman |
I Shall Keep Singing | Summer. Life. Song. | High | E4 - Bb5 | Emily Dickinson |
i thank You God | High | C4 - C6 | E. E. Cummings | |
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking | Summer. Life. Song. | High | D4 - G5 | Emily Dickinson |
If Thou Must Love Me | Two Sonnets of E. B. Browning | High | F#4 - A#5 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
If We Must Die | Voice | Eb4 - Gb5 | Claude McKay | |
Invitation to Love | Four Love Songs | Tenor | F3 - Bb4 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Invitation to Love | Three Love Songs | High | F4 - G5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
It's Easy to Invent a Life | Summer. Life. Song. | High | Db4 - Ab5 | Emily Dickinson |
Jardin japonais | Deux Chansons, For Soprano, Clarinet and Piano | High | Gb4 - Ab5 | Roseann Runte |
Justice | Songs of Love and Justice | High | D4 - A5 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Le matin à Matane | Deux Chansons, For Soprano, Clarinet and Piano | High | Db4 - Gb5 | Roseann Runte |
Listen | Preach The Word | High | E#4 - B#5 | Isaiah 17: 12, 18: 4 |
Longing | Four Love Songs | Tenor | E3 - A4 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Longing | Three Love Songs | High | Db4 - Gb5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Love | Songs of Love and Justice | High | F#4 - F#5 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Loveliest of Trees | Soprano | Eb4 - Bb5 | A.E Houseman | |
Luna Moth | Ventriloquist Acts of God | High | E4 - G5 | Ellen Wise |
Merry Autumn | Two Moods of Autumn | High | E4 - A5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Midway | I've Seen The Day | Soprano | C4 - A#5 | Naomi Long Madgett |
Morning | Five Dunbar Lyrics | Voice | D4 - F5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Morning Song, Vocalise for Soprano and Viola (Flute or Clarinet Optional) | Soprano | C4 - C6 | N/A | |
Night | Sunset and Night | High | D4 - A5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Not in Vain | Three Simple Songs | High | D4 - G5 | Emily Dickinson |
Open The Gates | Preach The Word | High | F#4 - C6 | Isaiah: 26; 1 - 2, 4 |
Over the Fence | Summer. Life. Song. | High | D4 - Bb5 | Emily Dickinson |
Perhaps You'd Like to Buy a Flower | Summer. Life. Song. | High | D#4 - G5 | Emily Dickinson |
Pillars of the Earth | Soprano | Db4 - Bb5 | 1 Samuel 2: 7-10 | |
Serenade | Soprano | Solo Treble | Whitman & Browning |
Title | Published | Size | Solo with Ensemble | Duration Range | Level | Orchestration |
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A Knee on The Neck | Yes | Chamber | Lyric Soprano, dramatic soprano, tenor, high baritone (or tenor) | Professional | Chamber orchestra | |
American Guernica | Yes | Wind Ensemble | Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Baritone | 5-10 | Professional | 3+Picc.3.3+Eb Clar+Alto Clar+BCl.2+Cbsn.AATB Saxes: 4.3.3.Euph.3: Timp.Perc(6).Pno.Clst: DB |
An American Port of Call | Yes | Full Orchestra + SATB Chorus | Mezzo, Tenor, Bass-baritone | 5-10 | Professional | SATB - 3[1.2.Pic] 2 2 3[1.2.Cbn] - 4321 - Tmp+3Perc - Pf - Str |
Baroque Suite | Yes | String Orchestra | 10-20 | Professional | Str | |
Break Forth | Yes | Full Orchestra | 5-10 | Professional | 3[1.2.Pic] 2 2 3[1.2.Cbn] - 4321 - Tmp+3Perc - Pf - Str | |
Celebration | Yes | String Orchestra | Under 5 | Professional | Hp (opt.) - Str | |
Church Street Serenade | Yes | Full Orchestra + SATB Chorus | 5-10 | Professional | SATB - 2[1.2] 2[1.2] 2[1.2/Bcl] 2[1.2]-0331-Tmp+Perc(suspended cymbal, snare)-Org-Str | |
Concertino for Trumpet and Orchestra | Yes | Full Orchestra | 10-20 | Professional | 2[1.2/picc] 332-4331-timp-perc(5)-st | |
Crispus Attucks - American Patriot | Yes | String Orchestra | 20+ | Professional | Str | |
Done Made My Vow | Yes | Full Orhcestra + Two SATB Choirs | 20+ | Professional | 2SATB + 2[1.2/Pic]222[1.2/Cbn] - 4331 - Tmp + 2Perc - Hp - Pf - Str | |
EarthRise (A Song of Healing) | Yes | Full Orchestra | 20+ | Professional | 3223-4331-Timp+2-hp-str | |
Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed: In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. For Orchestra | Yes | String Orchestra | 5-10 | Professional | Str | |
Essay for Strings | Yes | Full Orchestra | 5-10 | Professional | 2222 - 2331 - Tmp+Perc - Str | |
Fanfare on Amazing Grace for Orchestra | Yes | Full Orchestra | Under 5 | Collegiate and above | 3[1.2.Pic] 3[1.2.3/Eh] 3[1.2/Bcl.3] 3[1.2.Cbn] - 4331 - Tmp+3Perc - Str | |
Four Spirituals | Yes | Full Orchestra | 10-20 | Professional | 3[1.2.Pic] 222 - 4331 - Tmp+3Perc - Str | |
Hercules | Yes | Chamber Orchestra | 10-20 | Professional | 0022 - Str | |
I will lift up mine eyes | Yes | Full Orchestra | 10-20 | Professional | 2222-2200-timp-perc-pf(cel)-str | |
Intrada | Yes | Full Orchestra + SATB choir | Under 5 | Professional | SATB - 23[1.2.Eh]22 - 3000 - Hp - Cel - Str | |
Lachrymosa: 1919 | Yes | Chamber Orchestra | 10-20 | Professional | 0022 - Str | |
My Lord, What a Mourning | Yes | String Orchestra | 5-10 | Professional | Str | |
Paul Laurence Dunbar - Common Ground | Yes | Full Orchestra | Professional | 22[1.2/Ebcl/Bcl] 22-2220-perc(2)-str | ||
Piano Concerto | Yes | Full Orchestra | 20+ | Professional | 2222-2200-timp-str | |
Serenade “To Hearts Which Near Each Other Move” | Yes | Full Orchestra | 20+ | Professional | 3[1.2.3/Pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 2 3[1.2/Bcn.3] - 4331 - Tmp+3Perc - Str | |
Soliloquy to Martyred Hero | Yes | Full Orchestra | 20+ | Professional | 3[1.2.3/Pic] 2[1/Eh.2] 2 2 - 4331 - Tmp - Perc - Str | |
Sonata da Chiesa | Yes | String Orchestra | 10-20 | Professional | Str | |
Sonata for Trumpet (or Clarinet) and String Orchestra | Yes | Chamber + Dancers and Children's Chorus | 20+ | Professional | Children's Choir - 2 2[1.2/Eh] 0 2 - Hp - Pf/Cel - Perc - Str | |
Songs of Innocence | Yes | Full Orchestra | 20+ | Professional | 2[1.2/Pic] 222 - 2331 - Tmp+2Perc - Str | |
Songs of Isaiah | Yes | Full Orchestra + SATB Chorus | Professional | SATB - 222(eb+Bcn)2 - 2220 -Timp Mar Pfr - Str | ||
Symphony No. 1 | Yes | Full Orchestra + SATB chorus | Narrator, soloists | 20+ | Professional | 2222 2200 tmp str |
Symphony No. 2 | Yes | Full Orchestra | Piano | 20+ | Professional | solo Pf - 2222 - 4331 - Tmp+3Perc - Str |
Symphony No. 3 | Yes | Full Orchestra + SATB Chorus | Soprano | 20+ | Professional | SATB - 3[1.2.Pic] 2[1.Ca] 22 - 4331 - Tmp+3 - Str |
Symphony No. 4 | No | Full Orchesta + SATB Chorus | Soprano, Mezzo, Baritone | Professional | SATB - 3[1.2.3/Pic] 3[1.2.3/Eh] 00 - Perc - Cel - Hp - Str | |
The Gift of the Magi A “Choral Ballet” | Yes | String Orchestra + SATB Chorus | Soprano, Tenor | 20+ | Professional | SATB - Str |
The World Called | Yes | Full Orchestra + SATB Chorus | Tenor | 20+ | Professional | SATB - 1111 - 1110 - Perc - Str |
Three Spirituals | Yes | Full Orchestra | Trumpet | 10-20 | Collegiate and above | 2[1.Pic] 222 - 2331 - Timp+2Perc - Str |
Two Romances for Viola and Chamber Orchestra | Yes | String Orchestra | Trumpet | Clarinet | 10-20 | Professional | Str |
Violin Concerto | Yes | Full Orchestra | Violin | 20+ | Professional | Vn - 2222 - 2200 - Tmp+2Perc - Hp - Str |
Within Our Gates | Yes | Chamber | Viola | 20+ | Professional | Va - Fl - Hp - Str |
Zora | No | Full Orchestra + SATB Chorus | Two Sopranos | 20+ | Professional | SATB - 1111 - 1110- Tmp - Perc - Str |
Composer | Title | Work | Instrumentation | Level | Number of Movements | Accompanied | Size | Duration Range |
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Adolphus Hailstork | Fantasy on Brother James' Air | Organ | 1 | No | Solo | |||
Adolphus Hailstork | Guest Suite | Piano | 3 | No | Duo | |||
Adolphus Hailstork | Listen to the Lambs | Organ | 1 | No | Solo | |||
Adolphus Hailstork | Suite for Organ | Organ | 1 | No | Solo | |||
Adolphus Hailstork | Theme and Variations on "Draw the Sacred Circle Closer" | Cello | 6 | No | Solo | |||
Adolphus Hailstork | There Is a Balm in Gilead | Organ | 1 | No | Solo |