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559700 Bk Hanson US 559722 bk Hailstork US_559722 bk Hailstork US 23/03/2012 10:10 Page 2 Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941): tribute to the adventurous spirit of all people setting out on all women and men to join with him as he launches out on O to sail the sea in a ship! I launch all men and women with me forward An American Port of Call the seas of life. The texts used in this piece are among the life’s great journey. To leave this steady, unendurable land! into the Unknown. early, youthful poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The clock indicates the moment – Composer and College Professor Adolphus Cunningham 2004 with the Berkshire Symphony, and Mark Peskanov They depict Whitman’s vigorous optimism and his call to Adolphus Hailstork To leave the tiresome, tiresome sameness but what does eternity indicate? Hailstork, born April 17th, 1941 in Rochester, New York, as soloist. His cantata Crispus Attucks was first given in of the streets, the sidewalks, and houses; began his musical studies with piano lessons as a child. October 2005, in Norfolk, Virginia. Other new To leave you, O solid, motionless land. I launch all men and women forward with me He studied at Howard University and Manhattan School of commissions include Earthrise, a large scale choral work into the Unknown. Music, spending the summer of 1963 at the American for James Conlon and the 2006 Cincinnati May Festival, O to have a life henceforth a poem of new joys! We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters Institute at Fontainebleau, France. After service in the Three Studies on Chant Melodies for the American Guild To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, roll on, float on. and trillions of summers, and trillions U.S. Armed Forces in Germany (1966-1968), he returned of Organists 2006 national convention, and We Rise for To be a sailor of the world, bound for all ports, and trillions ahead of them. to the United States and pursued his doctorate degree at Freedom: The John P. Parker Story for the Cincinnati O to be a ship itself, (see indeed the sails I launch all men and women forward with me! Michigan State University in Lansing. He also attended Opera. Whitman’s Journey had its première with the I spread to the sun and air,) Births have brought us richness and variety, the Electronic Music Institution at Dartmouth College in Master Chorale of Washington, D.C. at Kennedy Center in O swift and swelling ship, full of rich words – full of joys. And other births will bring us richness and variety. New Hampshire (summer, 1972) and the Seminar on April 2006. Adolphus Hailstork is Professor of Music and 0 Whitman’s Journey: 1. Launch Out on Endless Seas Bound for all ports! I do not call one greater and one smaller, Contemporary Music (summer, 1978) at the State Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. That which fills its period and place is equal to any. University of New York at Buffalo. His principal teachers Words selected from the poetry of Walt Whitman (1819-92) – from Poem of Joys I launch all men and women with me! were H. Owen Reed (Michigan State University), Vittorio Composer’s Notes Forward! Giannini and David Diamond (Manhattan School of Lo the unbounded sea! Music), Mark Fax (Howard University) and Nadia In 1987 I was asked to write a piece for a summer music On its breast a ship starting, spreading her sails, – from Song of Myself Boulanger (American Institute at Fontainebleau). His festival in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Since the piece was Even her moon sails; career as a teacher includes graduate assistantships at to be twenty minutes long and for a Haydn-sized The pennant is flying aloft, as she speeds so stately – O to sing the most jubilant song! Michigan State University (1969-1971), and orchestra I decided that a simple first symphony would fit A worship new I sing, O thou transcendent, Nameless, below, emulous waves press forward. O to make the most jubilant song! professorships at Youngstown State University in Ohio the bill. It is written in the standard four movements: You captains, voyagers, explorers yours, The fibre and the breath, Light of the light, Full of music! Full of manhood! (1971-1977), Norfolk State University in Virginia (1977- Allegro, Adagio, Scherzo and Rondo. The final rondo You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours. Shedding forth universes, – from The Ship Starting Full of womanhood! Infancy! 2000), and Old Dominion University, also in Norfolk, brings back themes from the previous three movements. You, not for trade or transportation only, Thou pulse, thou motive of the stars, of the sun. Full of common employments, full of grain and trees! Virginia (2000-present), where he is Eminent Scholar and The Three Spirituals are orchestral settings of three But in God’s name and for thy sake, O soul! Aboard, at the ship’s helm, O for the voices of animals, Professor of Music. spirituals I set for pipe organ: Everytime I Feel The Spirit, Take ship, O soul, A young steersman, steering with care. the swiftness and balance of fishes! Adolphus Hailstork has written numerous works for Kum Ba Yah, and Oh Freedom. I made the arrangements We can wait no longer; Launch out on endless seas, Through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing, O for the dropping of rain-drops in a song! chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various chamber in 2005 to help celebrate the reopening of the Crispus Take ship, O soul, Fearless for unknown shores... An ocean bell – a warning bell, rock’d by the sea. ensembles, band, and orchestra. Among his early Attucks Theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Launch! Launch out on endless seas, Amid the wafting winds, caroling free, O for the sunshine, and motion of waves in a song! compositions are Celebration, and Out of the Depths An American Port of Call was written in 1985 for the Fearless for unknown shores... Singing our song of God, You give good notice indeed, you bell O the joy of my spirit is uncaged! It darts like lightning! (1977), and American Guernica (1983), two band works Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The concert overture, in Amid the wafting winds, caroling free, O soul, thou pleasest me! by the sea reef ringing, It is not enough to have this globe, or a certain time – which won national competitions. Consort Piece (1995), sonata-allegro form captures the strident (and Singing our song of God, O soul! Ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck place. I will have thousands of globes, and all time. commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Ensemble, was occasionally tender and even mysterious ) energy of a – from Passage to India I will have thousands of globes, and all time. awarded first prize by the University of Delaware Festival busy American port city. The great port of Norfolk, O soul, thou pleasest me, The freighted ship, tacking, speeds away Forward! O to make the most jubilant song! of Contemporary Music. Significant performances by Virginia, where I live, was the direct inspiration. Sailing these shores, or on the hills, or waking in the night. I stand, under her gray sails. Forward! major orchestras (Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York) Whitman’s Journey, Launch Out on Endless Seas Thought, silent thoughts of time, of space like water flowing. It’s time to explain myself. The beautiful and noble ship speeds away have been directed by leading conductors, including was commissioned by Donald J. McCullough for the I launch all men and women with me. with all her precious wealth. – from Poem of Joys James de Priest, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, and Master Chorale of Washington, D.C. The première took Bear me indeed beyond the regions infinite. But, aboard the ship of the body – the ship of the soul – Lorin Maazel. His Second Symphony and second opera, place in April 2006 at the Kennedy Center for the Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear. – from Song of Myself voyaging. Photo: Joshua’s Boots, both had their premières in 1999. Performing Arts. Though this movement was originally Bathe me, O God, in thee, mounting to thee, Hailstork’s Violin Concerto had its première in November conceived as the first of a set of three, it stands alone as a I and my soul to range in range of thee. – from Aboard at a Ship’s Helm 8.559722 2 3 8.559722 4 8.559722 559722 bk Hailstork US_559722 bk Hailstork US 23/03/2012 10:10 Page 5 Kevin Deas Virginia Symphony Orchestra AMERICAN CLASSICS Kevin Deas is one of America’s leading basses, perhaps most acclaimed for his signature portrayal of the title rôle in Porgy and Bess. A strong proponent of contemporary music, he was heard at Italy’s Spoleto Festival in a new production of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors in honor of the composer’s 85th birthday, videotaped for worldwide release, and his twenty- year collaboration with Dave Brubeck has taken him to Salzburg, Vienna and Moscow. Kevin ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Deas’s list of recordings includes Die Meistersinger with the Chicago Symphony under the late Sir Georg Solti and Varèse’s Ecuatorial with the ASKO Ensemble under the baton of Ricardo Chailly. Other releases include Bach’s B minor Mass and Handel’s Acis and Galatea on Vox Classics and Dave Brubeck’s To Hope! with the Cathedral Choral Society on the Telarc label. An American Port of Call Kevin Deas, Baritone Photo: Dave Norman Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Founded in 1920, the Virginia Symphony is Southeastern Virginia’s pre-eminent professional symphony orchestra.
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