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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
[…] 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 GUERNICA (1983), are two band works which won national competitions. […]
2020-06-24 20:15:00
San Francisco Classical Voice: Adolphus Hailstork: Bridging Two Worlds
[…] All Saints and was introduced to the classical tradition, including of course, his fellow Episcopalian Samuel Barber, and other contemporary Americans. As he says below, he was insulated from the developing civil rights movement in his earlier education. His B.A. in music, from Howard University (1963) and his initial postgraduate study at the Manhattan School (1964–1966, where he was taught by David Diamond, one of the leading lights of the mid-century American symphonists, and Vittorio Giannini, who remained a tonality-based composer in an academic world heavily dominated by serialism and other non-tonal compositional processes) and a nine-week study course with Nadia Boulanger in France, sound idyllic, in a way, shelters from the storm and stress of American culture. But a reckoning came, as he says, when he got out of the army (he served in West Germany) in 1968. And while the story of that development is fascinating, the richness […]
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2020-06-04 20:29:13
Re: Dusolina Giannini
2020-01-09 22:09:00
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival is this weekend, and the programming looks great (yeah, I'm leaving their retro fonts in place):Friday, January 10, 8:30pmSaturday, January 11, 7:00pmSaturday, January 11, 9:30pmSunday, January 12, 7:00pm P R O G R A M Friday January 10, 2020 (8:30pm)PIERRE SCHAEFFER - Étude aux casseroles [Pathétique] (1948)PAULINE OLIVEROS - Poem of Change (1992)BARRY TRUAX - The Garden of Sonic Delights (2016)ROBERT NORMANDEAU - Tunnel azur (2016)MAGGI PAYNE - Heat Shield (2018)BRAN(...)POS - martian brine pool (2019)CLIFF CARUTHERS - Cupido's Suitcase (2009)MATTHEW BARNARD - Woche (with apologies to Ruttmann and Brock) (2011)SANGWON LEE - Torturing Piano (2019):such: - Opaque Fragments (2017) Saturday January 11, 2020 (7:00pm)KEN NORDINE - Tick Tock Fugue (2011)FRANCIS DHOMONT - Here and There (2003)NATASHA BARRETT - Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran (2017)THOM BLUM - To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room (1996)DOUGLAS MCCAUSLAND - ISOLATE (2019)KRISTIN MILTNER - Mercey (2020)CECILIA CASTRO - ROMA III: The Ruin (2018)MICHELLE MOELLER - Spoke (2019)FELIPE OTONDO - Irama (2012)LEAH REID - Sk(etch) (2018)DANIELLE SAVAGE - Schizo Phonia (2018)FULYA UÇANOK - Assembly (2017) Saturday January 11, 2020 (9:30pm)TORU TAKEMITSU - Vocalism Ai (1956)KENNETH ATCHLEY - bay sky hills fog […]
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