Talib Rasul Hakim


Talib Rasul Hakim was 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.
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 and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 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 bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, viola, cello
Six Players and Voice Soprano, clarinet, trumpet, cello, 2 percussion, and piano
Four Clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano
Piano Piece Piano
Shapes Chamber Orchestra
Three Play Short Five Bass clarinet, percussion, bass
Contours Oboe, Bassoon, horn, trumpet, cello, bass
Currents String Quartet
Elements Flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello, piano, glass and bamboo wind and hand chimes
Roots and Other Things Flute/alto flute, oboe/EH, clarinet/bass clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, viola, cello, bass
Sound-Gone Piano
Inner-Sections Flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, percussion
Sound Images Brass, 3 percussion, strings, female chorus
Tone-Poem Soprano, percussion, contrabass, and piano
Placements Piano, percussion
Set-Three Soprano, cello, piano
Timelessness Flugelhorn, horn, trombone, tuba, 2 percussion, bass, and piano
Uranian-Projections Soprano, percussion, and piano
Visions of Ishwara Orchestra
Reflections on the 5th Day Narrator, chamber orchestra
Concepts Orchestra
Recurrences Orchestra
Arkan- 5 Chamber Orchestra
Lailatu'l-Qadr Bass clarinet, bass, percussion
Az-Zaahir-Al Batin Orchestra