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Contemporary American

HAILSTORK, Adolphus

Born in Rochester, NY, April 17, 1941

Composer website

  • Hailstork was educated at the Manhattan School and Michigan State University; he also studied with Nadia Boulanger.
  • He has taught at Michigan State, Youngstown State University, Norfolk (Virginia) State College, and Old Dominion University.1
  • His Grove’s article describes his music as “postmodern and pluralistic.”2

Sources

  1. Liner notes to Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call, Kevin Deas, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos 8.559722, CD, 2012.
  2. Doris Evans McGinty, “Hailstork, Adolphus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 17, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000042700.

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