Mountain Top Chorale - O PRAISE THE LORD by Adolphus Hailstork

Performed by Mountain Top Chorale at the World Choir Games 2024, Auckland New Zealand, winning GOLD in the Contemporary Music - Mixed Voices category.

Psalm 117vs 1 - 2
"O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people."
"For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord."

Dr. Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III is one of the leading African American composers of the modern age. Born in 1941 in Rochester, New York, he studied violin and voice as a child and received his Bachelor's degree from Howard University. Like many composers of the 20th century, he also spent a summer studying with the famous composition teacher, Nadia Boulanger in France. After receiving his masters from the Manhattan school of music and his PhD from Michigan State University, he became a professor in Virginia where he resides to this day.

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