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Leslie Adams ’55 Featured on Black Arts
JUNE 12, 2001--On June 13, Cleveland composer Leslie Adams '55 will be a guest on Black Arts, a program hosted by A. Grace Lee Mims on WCLV, 95.5 FM, from 10:00 to 11:00 P.M. The all-Adams program will include selections from his latest recording--22 art songs featuring tenor Darryl Taylor on the Albany Records CD Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams. Two of Adams's compositions, "Sence You Went Away" and "The Return from Town," were performed as part of the Young Artists of Cleveland Lyric Opera in Concert Wednesday, June 6, under the baton of Jonathon Field at Spaces Art Gallery.
In the June 2001 issue of Ebony, Adams's songs were cited in an article focusing on the 10all-time best songs by black composers as chosen by leading music historians. Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., directorof Chicago's Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College, listed Adams's "For You There Is No Song," as number one. Uzee Brown, chair of the music department at Morehouse College, listed Adams's "Sence You Went Away" as number 3.
A prolific and much-performed composer, Adams has written the opera Blake as well as many other works, including a symphony, a concert overture, a cantata, a ballet, and chamber and solo vocal and instrumental works. Adams's compositions have been performed internationally by the Prague Radio Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Minneapolis Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera.
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