Adolphus C. Hailstork

Hailstork’s setting of this familiar text mixes unsettling harmonies and unstable rhythms, enriched with a broad palette of choral textures, to evoke a mood of separation from one’s homeland. A beauti...

In this setting of the familiar Isaac Watts text with a Kentucky Carol melody, Hailstork features a vocal soloist throughout the lullaby. A magical atmosphere is created as the soloist is accompanied...

Originally composed for solo cello, this work has been adapted by the composer in response to requests from violists. The melodic theme comes from the final chorus of Hailstork’s Earthrise, a profound...

EASTER MUSIC is a challenging and mysterious work for cello and piano. Cast in a single movement, the music begins with aggressive dissonance and jagged rhythms and winds its way to ethereal consonanc...

CIRCUS BUTTERFLIES is exhilarating! It may be hard to imagine music perfectly matching this fantasy title, but Hailstork continues to amaze with his versatility, inventing fresh approaches for each ne...

Based on the poem, "Like Brothers We Meet this work celebrates reunions of civil war veterans, both Federal and Confederate. Written for advanced choruses he music evokes powerful sentiments through c...

MONUMENTS may be performed by trombone with piano (114-42312), string quartet or quintet (114-42399), or string orchestra (116-42098). The string quintet version adds double bass to the standard quart...

THE BONES OF MR. FORTUNE (FREE AT LAST!) is an 11-minute concerto-like work for solo flute accompanied by symphonic winds and percussion – perfect to play with band or with orchestra, as well as with...

Hailstork’s beautifully lilting SICILIANA for solo English horn is actually structured as a recitative and aria: a dramatic prelude serves as a soliloquy with question-like pauses, teasing our ears fo...

The text for the work was derived from a variety of poems by Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822) as suggested by Mre. Wharton. The poems used are: Asia: From Prometheus Unbound Good-Night Hymn to Intellectua...

Adolphus Hailstork makes use of the term BLatinx—a combination of Black and Latinx—in his new work L'Blatinx. This dissonant, blues-filled  work is scored for a trio of C Trumpets, utilizes footstompi...

Several powerful elements combine to create this striking 11,5-minute organ solo. In composing for the AGO chapter of Albany, NY, where Hailstork was raised and became a musician, the composer selecte...

Griots are the traditional bards of West Africa—keepers of oral history, storytellers, poets, musicians, and advisors all in one. Adolphus Hailstork’s GRIOT SONG for alto saxophone and marimba imagine...

This gem of a collection was commissioned for Juilliard’s pre-college Music Advancement Program. The ever-imaginative Hailstork has created a book of 11 short, contrasting works for performance, at a...

Beloved for his beautifully melodic vocal music and gratifying instrumental works, Adolphus Hailstork combines both gifts in the gracefully contemplative MEDITATION for Horn and Piano. With its proces...

Cast in a formal mold inspired by the Bach partitas, Hailstork's four-movement SUITE FOR SOLO VIOLIN begins with a perky Prelude, followed by a March with a few subtle winks at music from the Prelude....

Powerful' would be an understatement in describing both Frederick Douglass's words and Adolphus Hailstork's setting for Baritone with Piano accompaniment, also available for Cello ensemble with Timpan...

Hailstork's setting of Psalm 46 is beautiful and uplifting. For a cappella SA Voices, there are wonderful opportunities for for teaching unification throughout the unison sections. With accessible har...

The new setting of the Walt Whitman text by noted composer Aldophus Hailstork provides a challenge for an advanced ensemble. The harmonic progressions and vocal treatments are adventurous and effectiv...