The Blue Bag for Clarinet and Piano by Adolphus Hailstork. Theodore Presser, 2013, SS, 18 + 5 pages. Adolphus Hailstork (1941-) is an American composer and educator. He grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice. A recent work from 2011, The Blue Bag was composed for Anthony McGill. Says Hailstork, "In the back of my mind, I carried the images and music making of four classy-sassy ladies of song: Nancy Wilson, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, and Aretha Franklin." Bag is short of Bagatelle. For advanced performers with a duration of 6 minutes. (C2110)