Wounded Children (Performance Score)

Adolphus Hailstork

Hailstork’s program note begins, “Children starving in Africa. Children bombed and gassed in Syria, and abducted in Nigeria. The direct impetus for writing this piece is the caging of immigrant children in the southwest part of the United States of America. My country. My Homeland. These children were separated from their parents without any tracking system for reuniting parents with their children. The children will bear the scars of their internment for the rest of their lives.”WOUNDED CHILDREN is a suite of 13 interconnected, untitled short movements that may be heard as one 30-minute fabric, yet the individual movements also stand on their own. Hailstork’s program note ends: “Some of these small pieces bear a tinge of sadness or regret, even anger. But not all. Some reflect the playfulness that should be natural to childhood. And some reflect the tenderness that every child deserves. Some are prayers.”

Publisher: Theodore Presser Company

Duration: 30:00:00

Instrumentation: Piano

Pages: 20

Format: Performance Score

UPC: 680160682843

ISBN: 9781491132951

Item No: 110-41829