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2021-04-22 23:00:00
TheMarsh.org: Candace Johnson's Musical Series: "The Art Songs of Black Composers" Act I, "Music to My Ears: Hearing Adolphus Hailstork" May 22-23
[…] first installment, “Music to My Ears – Hearing Adolphus Hailstork” centers on the song cycle Ventriloquist Acts of God. As the songs are unpacked in a university music class, a professor and her students discuss how to hear the music – and each other – in a whole new way. About the Composer Adolphus Hailstork 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, orchestra, and opera. Among his early compositions are: CELEBRATION, recorded by the Detroit Symphony in 1976; OUT OF THE DEPTHS (1977), and AMERICAN […]
2020-07-27 11:37:23
Adolphus Hailstork: Three Spirituals for Orchestra Context Born in Rochester, New York in 1941, Adolphus Hailstork is one of the leading composers in the USA. He received his composition doctorate from Michigan State University, where he studied under Owen Reed. As well as studying at MSU, Hailstork also studied at the […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2018-06-24 23:00:00
Roy Harris - Chamber Music
[…] be the composer's biggest breakthrough and made him practically a household name.During the 1930s Harris taught at Mills College, Westminster Choir College (1934–1938) and the Juilliard School of Music. He spent most of the rest of his professional career restlessly moving through teaching posts and residences at American colleges and universities. His final posts were in California, first at UCLA and then at California State University, Los Angeles. Among his pupils were William Schuman, H. Owen Reed, John Donald Robb, Robert Turner, Lorne Betts, George Lynn, John Verrall, and Peter Schickele (best known as the creator of P.D.Q. Bach). He received many of America's most prestigious cultural awards, and at the end of his life was proclaimed Honorary Composer Laureate of the State of California.In 1936 Harris married the young pianist Johana Harris (née Duffy) who went on to a highly successful career, making numerous recordings and appearing as a […]
2014-01-12 01:00:00
American composer and conductor H Owen Reed died in January 2014, aged one-hundred-and-three
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