Three Meditations for viola and organ; Adolphus Hailstork
Adolphus Hailstork's (b 1941) is one of the foremost African-American composers working today. His style and output cannot be pigeonholed as one type of music--he has written in all classical genres and finds as much inspiration in European models as he does in African-American culture.
Hailstork's ''Three Meditations'' for the striking pairing of viola and organ is a three movement concert suite consisting of a mystially beautiful Christmas movement, the haunting ''Lenten Mourning Tears'', and a sublime movement for Easter. Any of the movements could also stand alone for liturgical settings. For advanced organists.
Three Meditations:
- 1. Christmas
- 2. Lent (Lenton Mourning Tears)
- 3. Easter
