In 1977 he moved to Massachusetts and he was a music instructor at Stonehill College and the Brookline Adult and Community Education Program where he taught both classical and popular music courses. He also conducted various church choirs and composed music for them to perform. Since 1998, he has been involved as a film music critic and the editor of an online magazine, Film Music Review. He is a member of the International Film Music Critics Association. He is the author of "A Guide to Film Music" which has been reprinted in seven editions. In addition, he has been a lecturer and consultant on various topics concerning music of the United States. As a longtime music preservationist, Hall has helped preserve music of the Shakers and other music from earlier America. He has written over twenty-five publications, including music guides on Christmas music in America, George Gershwin, Shaker music, Film music, and Old-time radio. In addition, he has written several memoirs about his songwriting years, "Songs of Survival" in 1996 and "Free As The Breeze" in 2015, and he has written and produced a series of multi-media books with audio and video features in the PineTree Multimedia Editions Series. In 1971, he began studying Shaker music and has become an authority on the subject, especially the Shaker song, "Simple Gifts". He compiled and edited numerous Shaker songs and hymns for a series in a national magazine on Shaker culture and has edited and arranged over one hundred Shaker spirituals and published many of them in music collections and on CDs. During the 1970s and 1980s, Hall was Vice-President, Historian and Conductor of the Old Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest choral society in the United States. He has published several monographs and music collections about this choral society, including a monograph about Stoughton composer, Edwin Arthur Jones. With his interest in community music, he has produced and hosted several cable television series. He has been a frequent guest on radio programs and hosted his own radio program, In the Mood, playing music of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In 2006, he became the moderator of an extensive site devoted to preservation of American music. He is also Director of the American Music Recordings Collection, a large archive of vintage recordings, and Director of the Center for American Preservation which specializes in preserving lesser known music. Hall has been listed in various directories; including International Who's Who in Music, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.
Selected music
For various ensembles
Piano Variations,
Three Organ Preludes, Op. 5
Tricinium for flute, oboe and bassoon, Op. 6
Six Carols for Christmastime for two recorders, Op. 13