THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, May 23, 1996 TAG: 9605220043
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY LEE TEPLY, SPECIAL TO THE DAILY BREAK
LENGTH: 23 lines
TONIGHT WILL be a high point in the prestigious career of composer Adolphus Hailstork.
The Norfolk State University professor will be in New York City, in the audience at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, for a concert by the New York Philharmonic. Music director Kurt Masur will conduct a program of 20th century music that features the New York premiere of Hailstork's ``Songs of Isaiah.''
The three-movement work, settings of biblical texts, was first performed in 1988 by the Boys Choir of Harlem, the group that commissioned the piece, with the Toledo Symphony. That same chorus will join the New York Philharmonic tonight and in repeat performances tomorrow and Saturday. The concert will also be given Monday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as the orchestra's free Memorial Day gift to the city.
This is the Philharmonic's first performance of a piece by Hailstork. He will discuss his work in a pre-concert lecture Saturday. by CNB