On Oct. 13, Marshall Opera will celebrate composer Adolphus Hailstork’s 85th birthday with a concert at Kaufman Music Center at Merkin Hall. Sopranos Nicoletta Berry and Maria Brea, tenor Joshua Blue (appearing courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera), and baritone Jorell Williams perform works by Hailstork. The program features the world premiere of “Our Land” with lyrics by Langston Hughes, “Nobody {…}
The New York Choral Society will be celebrating 65 years at their annual spring gala on the evening of April 4th in Manhattan. The event will also honor composer Dr. Adolphus Halistork, chorus member and trustee Michael Roos, and Dee Kittany who is celebrating singing 50 years with The New York Choral Society. Dr. Hailstork is being honored with the {…}
(Photo credits: Niebuhr, Steiner, Marshall Light Studio, © Chuck Thomas 2012) The National Opera Association’s 69th annual national conference is scheduled for Jan. 3-6, 2024 at in Tempe, Arizona. The conference kicks off with a performance of “Sanctuary and Storm” by Tawnie Olson and Roberta Barker, the winner of the 2023 Chamber Opera Competition. Jake Heggie will give the Keynote {…}
Marshal Opera is set to present the “Oral History Project Concert” at the Cell Theatre in New York on Oct. 28, 2023. The showcase, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m., will feature works by Victoria Bond, Michael Dellaira, Kenneth Fuchs, Charles Fussell, Daron Hagen, Adolphus Hailstork, Louis Karchin, Douglas Knehans, Jo Kondo, Tobias Picker, Judith Shatin, Alice Shields, Faye-Ellen Silverman, {…}
The New York Choral Society is set to present the highly anticipated New York premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s “A Knee on the Neck” on June 13, 2023 at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. The concert will pair this new work with Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pacem” in a program that seeks to place Hailstork’s groundbreaking work firmly in the {…}
Adolphus Hailstork has received the Composers Now 2023 Vision Award. Hailstork was awarded on Jan. 30, 2023. He received the reward remotely. He has composed a wide range of works, including three operas: “Joshua’s Boots,” “Paul Laurence Dunbar: Common Ground,” and “Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker.” Hailstork’s previous accolades include the 1971 Ernest Bloch Award for Choral Composition, {…}
Sonoro will present a special Christmas concert on Dec. 21, 2022 at Holy Trinity at Sloane Square in London. The showcase, entitled “Christmas With Sonoro,” will feature special guest, writer, and actor Andy Hamilton, who will host the evening which will include music by Cecilia McDowall, Ben Ponniah, Adolphus Hailstork, Roxanna Panufnik, Gareth Treseder, Nathaniel Dett, Michael Higgins, Bob Chilcott, {…}
(Credit: Suzanne Vinnik) The Harlem Chamber Players will present “Pity These Ashes: Tulsa 1921-2021” on June 19, 2021. The showcase will be presented online in partnership with The Greene Space at WQXR and WNYC, Harlem Stage, and the Harlem School of the Arts. The performance will feature the world premiere of Dr. Adolphus Hailstork’s “TULSA 1921: (Pity These Ashes, Pity This Dust)” as {…}
Tulsa Opera has announced an additional performance of its “Greenwood Overcomes” program on May 2, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. CT. The program is also being performed on Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. That first showcase will be streamed on the company’s official website. In a press release, the company cited “high demand” as the reason for adding its {…}
Updates: Per our sources, the filming and virtual premiere are delayed from February to June. Additionally, The Library of Congress has entered the field as a co-presenter of the world premiere. J’Nai Bridges is set to world premiere “TULSA 1921,” a Narrative work for Mezzo and String Ensemble by Adolphus Hailstork set to text by Herbert Martin. The performance will {…}
The New York Choral Society has announced “Our Voices,” a digital 2020-21 season between November and May. “The challenge of social distancing – so ‘unchoral’ – has prompted us to consider new ways of creating performances of choral music,” said NY Choral Society’s Music Director David Hayes in a press release. “The digital media space is an exciting opportunity for {…}