Name Talib Hakim Role Composer | ||
Education Manhattan School of Music | ||
Visions of Ishwara (Remastered)
Talib Rasul Hakim is an American composer. Born Stephen Alexander Chambers on February 8, 1940, brother to noted jazz drummer and composer Joe Chambers in Asheville, North Carolina, he grew up playing music in school, studying clarinet, piano, and singing in church choir. He later studied music at the Manhattan School of Music, New York College of Music, and the New School for Social Research, New York. His teachers include Morton Feldman, Ornette Coleman, Margaret Bonds, Robert Starer, Hall Overton, Chou Wen-Chung, William Sydeman, Hale Smith, and Charles Whittenberg.
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Hakim first came to attention in the wider music community through appearances of his works on the "Music in Our Time" concert series in New York in the mid-1960s. He received awards and residencies from the Bennington Composers Conference (1964–90) and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts (1981–2), as well as ASCAP, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Creative Artist Public Service Program. In addition to composing, Hakim taught at Pace College, Adelphi University, Nassau Community College, and Morgan State University, as well as working as a radio and television producer.
Hakim changed his name in 1973 after converting to Sufism. He died March 31, 1988 in New Haven, Connecticut.
List of works
Mutations (1964) bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, viola, cello
Six Players and Voice (1964) Soprano, clarinet, trumpet, cello, 2 percussion, and piano
Four (1965) Clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano
Piano Piece (1965) Piano
Shapes(1965) Chamber Orchestra
Three Play Short Five (1965) Bass clarinet, percussion, bass
Contours (1966) Oboe, Bassoon, horn, trumpet, cello, bass
Currents (1967) String Quartet
Elements (1967) Flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello, piano, glass and bamboo wind and hand chimes
Roots and Other Things (1967) Flute/alto flute, oboe/EH, clarinet/bass clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, viola, cello, bass
Sound-Gone (1967) Piano
Inner-Sections (1967) Flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, percussion
Sound Images (1969) Brass, 3 percussion, strings, female chorus
Tone-Poem (1969) Soprano, percussion, contrabass, and piano (text by Langston Hughes)
Placements (1970) Piano, percussion
Set-Three (1970) Soprano, cello, piano
Timelessness (1970) Flugelhorn, horn, trombone, tuba, 2 percussion, bass, and piano
Uranian-Projections (1970) Soprano, percussion, and piano
Visions of Ishwara (1970) Orchestra
Reflections on the 5th Day (1972) Narrator, chamber orchestra
Concepts (1974) Orchestra
Recurrences (1974) Orchestra
Arkan- 5 (1980–81) Chamber Orchestra
Lailatu'l-Qadr (The Night of Power) (1984) Bass clarinet, bass, percussion
Az-Zaahir-Al Batin(The Outward-The Inward) (1985–86) Orchestra