  Representative wave functions, which encode the topological properties of the
spin polarized fractional quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau level, can
be expressed in terms of correlation functions in conformal field theories.
Until now, the constructions have been restricted to flat geometries, but in
this paper we generalize to the simplest curved geometry, namely that of a
sphere. Except for being of interest for numerical studies, that usually are
performed on a sphere, the response of the FQH liquids to curvature can be used
to detect a topological quantity, the shift, which is the average orbital spin
of the constituent electrons. We give explicit expressions for representative
wave functions on the sphere, for the full Abelian FQH hierarchy, and calculate
the corresponding shifts. These microscopic results, based on wave functions,
agree with the predictions from the effective Chern-Simons field theory. The
methods we develop can also be applied to the planar case. It gives simpler
expressions for states with both quasiparticle and quasihole condensates, and
allows us to give closed form expressions for a general state in the hierarchy,
rather than finding the wave function on a case by case basis.
