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Celebrate Adolphus Hailstork on ‘A Local Touch’

Adolphus Hailstork and Raymond Jones at the WHRO studios.
Wayla Chambo
Adolphus Hailstork and Raymond Jones at the WHRO studios.

This Wednesday at 9:00 p.m., “A Local Touch – Music with a Virginia Connection” will celebrate a milestone birthday with one of our great local composers, Adolphus Hailstork. Join Raymond Jones as we speak with Adolphus Hailstork and maestro JoAnn Falletta on the eve of the Virginia Symphony concert at NSU, celebrating “Hailstork at 85”.

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We’ll step back in time with the Virginia Symphony in works such as “Celebration!”, written 50 years ago for the Bicentennial; the Piano Concerto No. 1 with Leon Bates as soloist; and the expansive, energetic “An American Port of Call”, all conducted by JoAnn Falletta.

We’ll continue with the Symphonicity orchestra and chorus combined with the Old Dominion University Chorus in the powerful, hopeful cantata for double choir “Earthrise”.

Then we’ll add to that other Hailstork works like his String Quartet No. 3 and “Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed”, inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King. It will be an illustration of Hailstork’s particular work: inspiration and creation from the events that are happening around him.

Tune in for this prelude to Thursday’s concert at Norfolk State University.

Join host Raymond Jones for Hailstork “with a Local Touch" on WHRO-FM Wednesday evening at 9:00, or listen online through our Media Player or your favorite device.