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These are both on one program, and now I feel strongly that Adolphus Hailstork would be Doctor Atomic's real name in the comic book.
Sheet music for Symphony No. 1 by Adolphus Hailstork, and Doctor Atomic Symphony by John Adams
May 28, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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At Carnegie Hall tonight, a moving tribute to Heather Heyer, who was murdered in Charlottesville in 2017 and would have turned 40 this year. Brilliant composing by Adolphus Hailstork, setting Rita Dove’s poem “Testimonial” — “I gave my promise to the world, and the world followed me here.
The Program On August 12, 2017, demonstrator Heather Heyer was murdered in the Charlottesville terrorist attack. At the time, Virginia-based composer Adolphus Hailstork was completing his setting of the iconic poem "Testimonial" by former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Hailstork decided to encode letters of Heyer's name as musical notes, heard in a soft peal of chimes near the end of the work. When The World Called was premiered, the musical tribute was not made public. Hailstork has authorized its disclosure in connection with this concert, whose music-making and message we dedicate in their entirety to the memory of a principled life, ended too soon. Heather Heyer would have turned 40 in 2025. We welcome honored guests Susan D. Bro, mother of Heather Heyer, and Rita Dove. ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK The World Called (NY Premiere) I'm a longtime fan of Adolphus Hailstork. He's an unapologetically neo-Romantic composer, inexhaustibly creative, equipped with a flawless technique. Steeped in the styles and tropes of his classical forbears, he's particularly well-attuned to singing, solo as well as choral (which is its own thing). Hailstork's writing is luxuriantly melodious, carried forward by vigorous rhythm and a purposeful yet sensuous harmony. The World Called is a 22-minute setting for chorus, orchestra, and solo soprano of a landmark text by former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove. As the cantata begins, strings and winds unfurl a rhapsodic melody against a pulsing backdrop of horns and brass. The chorus enters with a fanfare of parallel triads that projects the grandeur and urgency of the poetic summons. A reflective treatment of "and I answered" segues into a sassy episode for clarinet and woodblock. As the cantata unfolds, its music toggles among these three registers, of grandiloquence, mischievousness, and contemplation. Hailstork follows the protagonist's shifts of mood as she reckons with this transformative moment in her life. The soloist's flourishes on "flourish," in the midst of a rollicking waltz, are charmingly apt. The tribute to Heather Heyer occurs near the work's muted conclusion. Using the note B for the letter H (as J.S. Bach did) and then the vowels of Heyer's name, Hailstork gives the chimes a sequence of pitches that quietly memorialize the fallen American: B,E, A, B, E. As the chimes are sounding, the chorus intones "the world called" and the soprano gently calls out: "promise." A view of the stage at Carnegie Hall from the balcony. A large choir and an orchestra are seated on stage.
April 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Tonight’s entertainment:
The program for tonight in the Boston Symphony Orchestra which includes Adolphus HAILSTORK Lachrymosa: 1919 STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements -Intermission- ELGAR Violin Concerto
April 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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September 30, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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October 3, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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Some of the students at the historic Boyds Negro School, c. 1920. The one-room school building at 19510 White Ground Road will be open for #BlackHistoryMonth on two Sundays, February 9 and February 16, 2-4 pm.

(Teacher Laura Hailstork was a grandmother of the composer Adolphus Hailstork.)
Six black children in two rows, standing on the front stairs in front of the door of the school. The caption is Boyds Negro School Students - ca. 1920. Photo from Clara Luckett Talley. Left to right, front to back: Mary Hebron; Clara Luckett; Bessie Hebron; Della Hawkins; Mae Doy, Mary Turner. Teacher: Mrs. Laura Hailstork (not shown).
February 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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'Adolphus Hailstork' ?!
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July 20, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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This is the story of Matilda Hailstork, a conjure woman who received 3 years in jail for doing a working for a client that did not manifest. #hoodoosky
#whoswhoinhoodoohistory #hoodoohistory #folkmagic #witchsky #pagansky #conjuresky #voodoosky #occultsky
November 21, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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Images from Friday’s rehearsal with Adolphus Hailstork. The Flu wasn’t going to keep me from this. Getting stronger each day.
World Premiere this Sunday! 7pm, Hill Auditorium - University of Michigan
📸: Chris Boyes
#saxophone #concerto #composers #dreams
February 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Today, #Hailstork #Stravinsky and #Elgar with Zimmermann from #Boston www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch
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Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk play: Adolphus HAILSTORK: Lachrymosa: 1919. STRAVINSKY: Symphony in Three Movements. ELGAR: Violin…
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April 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
bernardhughes.bsky.social
Interrupting Saturday cat discourse to recommend Adolphus Hailstork’s Third Symphony. It’s a great piece - and I’m not just recommending because he has the best name of *any* composer
Hailstork: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 - YouTube
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November 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Great programs at Other Minds (Samuel Adams and Ingram Marshall), Oakland Symphony (Clyne, Ravel, Hailstork, Stravinsky), and Conrad Tao's recital.

What to do, and why can't I be in three places at the same time?
October 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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September 30, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Worked for me tonight, I didn’t know the Hailstork piece so I’ve been investigating further.
August 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Today, #Hailstork #Sibelius with Hadelich and #Tchaikovsky's Fifth from #Berlin www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch
Hailstork, Sibelius with Hadelich and Tchaikovsky's Fifth from Berlin - Schedule 28/5/2026 - www.worldconcerthall.com
Augustin Hadelich, violin, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Manfred Honeck play: Adolphus HAILSTORK: Lachrymosa: 1919. SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47.…
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May 28, 2026 at 6:15 AM
mcallistersax.bsky.social
Still on a high from last Sunday! Deepest gratitude to Gail Straith, Kenneth Kiesler, and of course the wonderful Adolphus Hailstork! Major new work for saxophone by one of the greats.
📸: Peter Smith
February 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Tonight is an exciting program with a NYC premiere by Marion Bauer, a US premiere by Adolphus Hailstork and a David Diamond symphony with the Mannes Orchestra.
December 10, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Shoutout to composer Adolphus Hailstork with his timely comments from the stage tonight, referencing Beethoven's Eroica and rejection of a certain, um, "self-appointed emperor."

Well done, sir!
April 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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At the Vermont Otter Creek Music Festival (OCMF) on Saturday July 27th,

Castle of our Skins will perform string quartets by Black composers, including Daniel Bernard Roumain, Shelley Washington, William Grant Still, Fred Onovwerosuoke, and Adolphus Hailstork.
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Castle of Our Skins, who take their name from a poem by Nikki Giovanni called "poem for nina", focuses on work by Black composers from all over the diaspora.

"Safika: Portrait Concert of Dr. Bongani Ndodana-Breen"
Safika: Portrait Concert of Dr. Bongani Ndodana-Breen
Presented live on Friday, December 3, 2021 at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, MA.Castle of our Skins, an ensemble in residence at the Longy School...
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July 5, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Off the top of my head:
Piston: Symphony 2
Pettersson: Symphony 7
Hailstork: Symphony 2
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto 2
Macdowell: Piano Concerto 1
December 15, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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Timpani front and center for Andy AKIHO’s Timpani concerto along with HAILSTORK and FRANCK at the @minnesotaorchestra.org
May 30, 2026 at 12:53 AM
World premiere of a Piano Concerto by Adolphus Hailstork. If you want to hear more: anopusaday.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/a...
July 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
mcallistersax.bsky.social
Post-premiere with Adolphus Hailstork and our kind donor and dear friend Gail Straith! What a deeply special night. Thank you to Kenneth Kiesler and the amazing University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra! Next stop for this great, new concerto: @chicagosinfonietta with Mei-Ann Chen (May 9-10)!
February 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III (born April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Albany, New York,

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April 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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JoAnn Falletta has more gumption than a dozen conductors put together. A couple of seasons ago I went to Buffalo for an all-Foss concert she programmed. Now, here she is doing an all-Hailstork program with the Virginia Symphony.
April 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM