{"id":413152,"date":"2021-08-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmusicusa.wpengine.com\/?p=413152"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:38:47","slug":"adolphus-hailstork-music-is-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/nmbx\/adolphus-hailstork-music-is-a-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolphus Hailstork: Music is a Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1096605019%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-bd4Dp31bOw9&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"New Music USA\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/new-music-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Music USA<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"SoundLives -- Adolphus Hailstork: Music is a Service\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/new-music-usa\/soundlives-adolphus-hailstork-music-is-a-service\/s-bd4Dp31bOw9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Music USA \u00b7 SoundLives \u2014 Adolphus Hailstork: Music is a Service<br \/>\nFrank J. Oteri in conversation with Adolphus Hailstork<br \/>\nJuly 23, 2021\u20141:00pm EDT via Zoom<br \/>\nVia a Zoom Conference Call between NYC and Virginia Beach, Virginia<br \/>\nAdditional voiceovers by Brigid Pierce; audio editing by Anthony Nieves<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adolphus Hailstork turned 80 in April, but he has been celebrated since the beginning of this year. On January 20, a wind band arrangement of his Fanfare on \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d was performed by the United States Marine Band during the inauguration of President of the United States Joe Biden. It was only the second time that music by a contemporary African American composer had been selected to be part of the repertoire performed at a presidential inauguration ceremony. And in June, as part of a digitally streamed concert on the first Juneteenth that was an official U.S. national holiday, J\u2019Nai Bridges and the Harlem Chamber Players gave the world premiere performance of his concert aria <em>Tulsa 1921 (Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust)<\/em>, a retelling of the Tulsa Race Massacre to mark its centenary. The concert was even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/30\/us\/tulsa-race-massacre-hailstork-opera-harlem-players-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previewed on CNN<\/a> which rarely covers music outside the commercial mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>It was definitely time to catch up with Dr. Hailstork to talk about his life in music. His passion for making music stretches all the way back to his childhood when he sang as a boy chorister. While growing up, he sang his way through all the parts, eventually singing bass. After he embarked on his path as a composer, he never lost his love for the human voice and for melody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Choral music is so rich,&#8221; Hailstork exclaimed during our conversation over Zoom. &#8220;It is my favorite medium.&#8221; And Hailstork&#8217;s music has been treasured by choirs for half a century. He received his first significant compositional accolade, the Ernest Bloch Award, for his choral composition <em>Mourn Not the Dead<\/em> in 1971, the same year he received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Ironically, only a few years earlier, as he confessed during our talk, he didn&#8217;t even know what the words &#8220;graduate school&#8221; meant. After he had completed his Bachelor&#8217;s degree at Howard University, he went to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger, not really sure about what his next steps would be.<\/p>\n<p>Hailstork, however, took a very different path from most composers who pursued academic degrees during that time, eschewing what he described as the &#8220;plink, plank, and plunk&#8221; of the avant-garde music of his contemporaries. And for many years, his music was overlooked as he acknowledged. &#8220;It used to be a lot more difficult for lyrical types like me to have a place, just to be recognized, to be heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this time, Hailstork, nevertheless, held his aesthetic ground, settling in Virginia and teaching for decades at Old Dominion University in Norfork while composing a stunning output of chamber music, solo piano and organ pieces, as well as many formidable orchestral works including four symphonies, in addition to writing numerous works for chorus. But while he is clear that he wants his music to be &#8220;a continuation rather than a breaking away from&#8221; the Western classical tradition, he very clearly has his own voice which has been enriched by his immersion into African American spirituals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do worship the spirituals,&#8221; he explained at one point. &#8220;They\u2019re gorgeous melodies and they\u2019re very useful, and also I believe in the old statement by Dvo\u0159\u00e1k that an American art music could be based on using African American materials or Indian materials also. I decided that Dvo\u0159\u00e1k was right, and that\u2019s what I wanted to do and I tried to work them in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result of Hailstork&#8217;s idiosyncratic amalgamation of these two traditions has yielded an extraordinarily rich compositional language which also serves his other goal, &#8220;to capture or reflect the tribulations and the occasional triumphs of African Americans in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"owl-carousel owl-theme\">\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>We almost killed music 50-60 years ago as a group experience.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>This whole thing of plink, plank, and plunk, count to 12--I couldn\u2019t get into it.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I learned a lot from those wonderful musicians who took the time to let me know that: \"Your harp writing sucks, man. We got to teach you how to do this.\"<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Harp makes a great melding together kind of goo.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I wound up teaching comp to undergrads without any kind of theory background. It was excruciating. They didn\u2019t know what they were doing. \"I\u2019m going to be a Composah.\" Well, sorry, it helps to know how to; it\u2019s like if you\u2019re going to build buildings and you never knew what a girder was.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I believe in the old statement by Dvo\u0159\u00e1k that an American art music could be based on using African American materials or Indian materials also.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I think \"We Shall Overcome\" is a great classical melody.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>In my music, I try to capture or reflect the tribulations and the occasional triumphs of African Americans in this country.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Music is supposed to have meaning to me.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I salute all the band directors of America for their constant looking for new pieces.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I was reacting to all the black men who are getting shot in the back--16 bullets here, seven bullets there<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I love grand opera, though I never had a chance to write an evening\u2019s length opera. I\u2019m getting kind of old for that.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>If anything good came out of the pandemic, it's that so many artistic groups have started to rethink their hopes, their plans, and also their whole programming.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"attribution-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Adolphus-Hailstork-at-the-Harlem-School-of-the-Arts-square-200x200.png\" alt=\"Adolphus Hailstork\" class=\"attribution-headshot\" \/><h5 class=\"attribution-text\">Adolphus Hailstork, composer<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"pullquotes-wrapper pullquote-slide item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pullquote-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I once called music a service art, and that\u2019s probably because growing up as a chorister, I was performing service. ... 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Hailstork&#8217;s 80th birthday year got off to an impressive start with a performance of his music as part of the Presidential Inauguration ceremony of Joe Biden. Since then there has been a world premiere of a concert aria he composed to commemorate the centenary of the Tulsa Massacre and he awaits the premiere of his recently completed Fourth Symphony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":413174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5,952],"tags":[1008,257,1007],"nmb_categories":[7,8,955],"how_to_category":[],"nmb_tags":[],"internal_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-413152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nmbx","category-podcasts-and-discussions","category-soundlives","tag-african-american-music","tag-orchestra","tag-spirituals","nmb_categories-interviews","nmb_categories-podcasts-and-discussions","nmb_categories-soundlives"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adolphus Hailstork: Music is a Service - New Music USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Music is supposed to have meaning,&quot; according to Dr. Adolphus Hailstork whose music captures the tribulations and the occasional triumphs of African Americans in this country. 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