I have downloaded several videos which features the classical selections of the Composer, Adolphus Hailstock. Adolphus Hailstock studied violin, piano, organ, and voice. Most of his compositions were
religious choral music, enjoy.
Adolphus Hailstork
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Adolphus Hailstork (born Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III, Rochester, New York, April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice.
Hailstork received a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a doctorate in music composition from Michigan State University in 1971, studying with H. Owen Reed. His other composition instructors include Mark Fax, Vittorio Giannini, David Diamond, and Nadia Boulanger.
He has served as professor at Youngstown State University in Ohio, as well as professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at Virginia's Norfolk State University. He is currently a professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Hailstork is of African American ancestry and his works blend musical ideas from both the African American and European traditions.
Hailstork's awards include a Fulbright fellowship (1987). In 1992 he was named a Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Old Dominion University maintains the Adolphus Hailstork Collection, in the special collections area of the F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room, in the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) : Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed (1979)
Draw the Sacred Circle Closer (Adolphus Hailstork) -- performed by Timothy Holley
Candace Johnson Sings Hailstork part 1 of 5.avi
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Difficulties (from Songs of Love and Justice) by Adolphus Hailstork
"GO DOWN, MOSES" by Adolphus Hailstork I. Sherman Greene Chorale
Shout For Joy! Adolphus Hailstork
I will Lift up Mine Eyes, Adolphus Hailstork
Adolphus Hailstork: Toccata on Veni Emmanuel
Lead Gently, Lord -- Adolphus Hailstork
FSU University Singers - Crucifixion
BYU Singers, "Crucifixion (He Never Said a Mumblin' Word)"
The Virginia Chorale – Nocturne
Kum Ba Ya
Adolphus Hailstork
Taken From Wikipedia
Draw the Sacred Circle Closer (Adolphus Hailstork) -- performed by Timothy Holley
Candace Johnson Sings Hailstork part 1 of 5.avi
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Difficulties (from Songs of Love and Justice) by Adolphus Hailstork
"GO DOWN, MOSES" by Adolphus Hailstork I. Sherman Greene Chorale
Shout For Joy! Adolphus Hailstork
I will Lift up Mine Eyes, Adolphus Hailstork
Adolphus Hailstork: Toccata on Veni Emmanuel
Lead Gently, Lord -- Adolphus Hailstork
FSU University Singers - Crucifixion
BYU Singers, "Crucifixion (He Never Said a Mumblin' Word)"
The Virginia Chorale – Nocturne
Kum Ba Ya
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