Graduated from Austin College, Sherman, Texas (1969)
Studied at Salzburg Conservatory, Salzburg, Austria (1969-70)
Studied musicianship, theory and ear-training with Helen Jordan in New York (ca. 1981-85)

Cofounder, People Taking Action Against AIDS (1986)
Founder, Ads Against AIDS (1990)

Don Hall worked primarily as a studio musician, writing and recording songs for commercials. In the 1980s he also worked as a studio vocalist on many industrials and corporate projects with composer-writer-producer Mary Moreno.

His last project, completed shortly before his death and still unreleased, was a recording of songs for children.

He lived with his companion, Robert Starr, in Manhattan and Bellport, Long Island.

In 1986 Hall and a group of friends in Bellport founded People Taking Action Against AIDS, an all-volunteer organization that by the time of his death had raised $10 million for AIDS research, mainly through an annual event on Long Island. In 1987 the group raised over $120,000 at a single event – an auction of work donated by well-known artists.

Projects funded by People Taking Action Against AIDS included hot meals, hospital equipment not covered by Federal grants, malpractice insurance for rural volunteer nurses, an AIDS support center in rural Georgia, the Children's AIDS Foundation, Friends of Clinical Care Center, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Long Island Association for AIDS Care, and New York's Community Research Initiative.

In 1990, as part of the group’s work, Hall organized Ads Against AIDS, signing up advertising agencies to create print and broadcasting campaigns about the epidemic.

Don Hall died of AIDS in New York at the age of 44 on September 2, 1993.

—Nurit Tilles

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• Obituary, New York Times, September 4, 1993.

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