Hailstork - An American Port Of Call/Fanfare On

Facts Award-winning composer Adolphus Hailstork is a vibrant communicator whose music speaks directly and subtly. His Symphony No. 1 was commissioned for festival performance and is imbued with the lyrical and vivid qualities of which he is a master. The Three Spirituals are richly affecting orchestral settings originally written for pipe organ. Fanfare on Amazing Grace is nobly conceived and An American Port of Call evokes the bustle inspired by Norfolk, Virginia. Whitman's Journey is a hymn of hope for those setting out on 'the seas of life.' a champion of American music, JoAnn Falletta has presented nearly five hundred works by American composers including over one hundred world premieres. Her Naxos recordings include the double GRAMMY-« Award-winning disc of works by John Corigliano and GRAMMY-«-nominated discs of works of Tyberg, Dohneínyi, Fuchs, Schubert, and Respighi.