Edited by Mickey Thomas Terry. For Organ. Moderately Difficult. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers

Chamber Music Horn, Piano

SKU: PR.114422790

114-42279. Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Set of Score and Parts. 4+1 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42279. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114422790).

ISBN 9781491134795. UPC: 680160685509.

Belov ed for his beautifully melodic vocal music and gratifying instrumental works, Adolphus Hailstork combines both gifts in the gracefully contemplative MEDITATION for Horn and Piano. With its processional-like accompaniment and broad solo part, the work is well-suited for recitals, ceremonies, services, and other occasions.

Chamber Music Trombone, Piano

SKU: PR.114423120

Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Set of Score and Parts. 28+12 pages. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42312. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114423120).

UPC: 680160689477.

MONUM ENTS was commissioned by the Resonate project, a collaboration of the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, Bowling Green State University, the Carr Center, Michigan State University, Oberlin College Conservatory, the University of Michigan, and Western Michigan University.The trombone part was written for David Jackson, professor of trombone at the University of Michigan.The title occurred to me when a friend living in Philadelphia told me she had toured monuments in that city on Memorial Day, 2021. By that time I had already written what I call a “noble, lyrical melody” for trombone to serve as the main theme in the composition.MONUMENTS was finished on September 11, 2021. Other awesome monuments had been created on that date twenty years before.–Adolphus Hailstork.

(For Men's Chorus, A Cappella). By Adolphus Hailstork. Arranged by Adolphus Hailstork. Male chorus. For Tenor, Bass. Choral. Piano/Vocal Score. Standard notation. Composed 2003. 3 pages

Chamber Music Piano, Viola

SKU: PR.114418860

Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 20+12 pages. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41886. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114418860).

UPC: 680160667901.

Hails tork had originally written his Elegy in 1980, in memory of a friend's passing. Decades later, he was asked by cellist Tim Holly to finish the work, and the Caprice was added in 2016. Despite 35 years of intervening life and changes in musical language, Hailstork has matched the tonality of the earlier movement. His transcription for viola and piano was performed in October at New Music Norfolk (Hampton Roads) by Rebecca Sinclair Kim and Susan Ha.

Concert band Concert Band

SKU: PR.115402480

Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Arranged by Donald Patterson. Folio. Score and parts. 24+4+4+2+2+1+4+4+4+2+1+1+ 2+2+2+2+3+3+3+1+1+1+1+2+2 +2+2+5+2+1+1+1 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 20 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #115-40248. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.115402480).

ISBN 9781491134139. UPC: 680160684236. 9 x 12 inches.

Originally composed for solo organ, Hailstork’s fanfare is a 3½-minute explosion of joyous sound inspired by the Baroque-era tradition of Chorale Preludes. As in Bach’s organ preludes, the familiar hymn’s phrases broadly emerge from ornate counterpoint, here in the form of brass fanfares. The result is exhilarating! Also scored by Hailstork for chamber ensemble and for orchestra, FANFARE ON AMAZING GRACE was transcribed for concert band in January 2021 by MGySgt Don Patterson, staff arranger for “The President’s Own” United States Military Band, for that ensemble’s worldwide broadcast performance at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration.

Chamber Music Solo Organ

SKU: PR.113400460

Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. 16 pages. Duration 11 minutes, 30 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #113-40046. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.113400460).

ISBN 9781491135082. UPC: 680160686308.

Sever al powerful elements combine to create this striking 11½-minute organ solo. In composing for the AGO chapter of Albany, NY, where Hailstork was raised and became a musician, the composer selected the hymn tune Albany, whose text begins with “Ancient of days...” Hailstork’s fantasy on this imposing melody is built as a chorale prelude, following Bach’s method of creating concert works around phrases from a known sacred melody.

Chamber Music Cello, Piano

SKU: PR.114418870

Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 20+12 pages. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41887. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114418870).

UPC: 680160667918.

Hails tork had originally written his Elegy in 1980, in memory of a friend's passing. Decades later, he was asked by cellist Tim Holly to finish the work, and the Caprice was added in 2016. Despite 35 years of intervening life and changes in musical language, Hailstork has matched the tonality of the earlier movement. His transcription for viola and piano was performed in October at New Music Norfolk (Hampton Roads) by Rebecca Sinclair Kim and Susan Ha.

Choral SATB choir

SKU: PR.312419160

Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Performance Score. 20 pages. Duration 430. Theodore Presser Company #312-41916. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.312419160).

ISBN 9781491134931. UPC: 680160685882. Psalm 117.

Hailstork†™s exhilarating addition to the Psalm 117 repertoire draws inspiration from his elegant blend of traditional choral writing, with a spiritual-like melody in the Basses, and a tinge of Gospel fervor. The excitement of irregular meter, and independent part-writing with divisi chords, make O PRAISE THE LORD a perfect concert work for college, community, and advanced high school choirs to rise up to a challenge that is easily attained. Only Hailstork’s magical artistry could spawn such a psalm setting in a minor key that is fully uplifting to sing and hear.

Chamber Music flute, piano

SKU: PR.114424240

Free at Last!. Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Set of Score and Parts. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42424. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114424240).

ISBN 9781491137581. UPC: 680160691036.

THE BONES OF MR. FORTUNE (FREE AT LAST!) is an 11-minute concerto-like work for solo flute accompanied by symphonic winds and percussion – perfect to play with band or with orchestra, as well as with the composer’s own piano reduction. The work features lengthy cadenzas, and exhilarating dance-like sections with the ensemble. Hailstork describes the historical inspiration: Abused in life and death, an enslaved man (Mr. Fortune) was owned by a surgeon who preserved his skeleton to study anatomy. The bones remained with the doctor’s family for generations, and were given a proper burial making national news in 2013, 215 years after Mr. Fortune’s death.
Abused in life and death, an enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune was honored with an elaborate funeral more than 200 years after he died in Connecticut.Mr. Fortune was owned by Dr. Preserved Porter on a farm in Waterbury, Connecticut. When Fortune died in 1798, Porter, a bone surgeon, preserved his skeleton by having the bones boiled to study anatomy at a time when cadavers for medical study were disproportionately taken from slaves, servants and prisoners.One of Porter’s descendants gave the skeleton in 1933 to Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, where it was displayed from the 1940s until 1970. The descendant referred to the slave as “Larry” and his name was forgotten at the time.A study by forensic anthropologists at the Quinnipiac University School of Medicine concluded that Fortune was about 5 feet 5 inches tall and died at around 55 years old. He suffered a number of painful ailments, including a fracture in his left hand, a severe ankle sprain and lower back pain. “He was an individual who was in considerable distress,” a forensic professor, Richard Gonzalez said.I was taken by the bizarre story of Mr. Fortune and decided to use it as the stimulus for this work.

Chamber Music Piano, Trumpet

SKU: PR.114419020

Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 28+12 pages. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41902. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419020).

UPC: 680160669738. 9 x 12 inches.

With a nod to Bach, Hailstork crafts a contrapuntal dialogue between trumpet and keyboard, with repeated elements throughout to keep things grounded. Versions available for both piano and organ accompaniment.