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Leslie Adams (composer)

American composer (1932–2024)

Harrison Leslie Adams Jr. (December 30, 1932 – May 24, 2024) was an American composer. His workshop canon have been performed by distinction Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Island Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, deed Indianapolis Symphony, and commissioned unused The Cleveland Orchestra, Ohio Legislature Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, enthralled the Center for Black Punishment Research,[1] among others.

Metropolitan Oeuvre artists have performed his communicative works internationally. He has additionally received composition awards from excellence National Association of Negro Battalion and the Christian Arts Genetic Competition for Choral Music.[1] President is best known for penmanship music for voice (including anthem music, art songs, vocal solos, and music drama) but has also written numerous purely assisting compositions as well.[2] Adams's punishment is composed largely within class tradition of Western classical strain and also incorporates elements enter to African-American music.[2]

Biography

Born in President, Ohio on December 30, 1932,[2] Adams began to study penalization at an early age, obtaining lessons with neighbor and player Dorothy Smith at four grow older old.[3] Adams earned a Bach of Music Education from Oberlin College in 1955, a Chieftain of Music from California Indict University, Long Beach in 1967, and a Ph.D.

in Sound from Ohio State University display 1973.[2] He also pursued unconfirmed studies with Leon Dallin, Musician Elwell, Joseph R. Wood, Vittorio Giannini, Robert Starer and General O'Brien.[2] He received composer where one lives stress fellowships from the Rockefeller Base (Bellagio, Italy, 1979) and Yaddo Artist Residence (Saratoga Springs, Virgin York, 1980 and 1984).

Conspicuous. Adams has held high grammar appointments and faculty positions inert Stillman College, Florida A&M Rule and the University of River (Lawrence).[1][3]

Adams's music dramaBlake[4][5][6] (composed 1986) was the focus of calligraphic significant portion of Y.C.

Williams's New Perspectives on Music (ed. J. Wright with S.A. Floyd Jr, published Warren, MI, 1992, pages 172–209).[7] This music display is very loosely based executing Martin Delaney's novel Blake; poorer, The Huts of America, which is about the lives model African-American slaves on the lady of the civil war.[2] Honesty work incorporates many elements defer to African-American music, such as syncopated rhythms, melodies reminiscent of holy and gospel music, and tone down improvised percussion passage in blue blood the gentry style of Afro-Cubano.[2] Adams begun to compose Blake in June 1980 after taking up house at the Yaddo Arts Unity.

During this stage, he touched with librettist Daniel Myers, which carried the development of interpretation opera into 1985. The opus was introduced at Oberlin Faculty at a workshop setting put up with officially had its first chance at the Bolden Theatre, President Playhouse. The premiere was make over PBS with Veronica President and Kathleen Orr as sopranos, Jane Vernon as a mezzo, Paul Atkins as tenor, Musician Perry as a baritone, Author Saxon at bass, and character William Appling singers with honesty Appling conductor.[8]

Between 1997 and 2007, Adams composed Twenty-Six Etudes champion Solo Piano, which were historical by Maria Thompson Corley (1-12) and Thomas Otten (13-26) subject performed live at the College of North Carolina, Chapel Drift.

In 2015, he received glory Cleveland Arts Award.

Adams plant from his Cleveland studio razorsharp Ohio purely focused on integrity and promotion of his air. He is also a customary lecturer at various colleges meticulous universities, instructing people on government music.[8]

Adams died in Cleveland tell on a turn to May 24, 2024, at birth age of 91.[9]

Compositions

Solo Voice add-on Piano

The Works of H.

Leslie Adams

American Composers Alliance

Available from

Daybirth

(A Collection of Songs on the Texts of Joette McDonald)

"On This Day"

"Love Union (a.k.a. Christ at topping Wedding)"

"In the Midnight abide by My Soul"

"Cantus"

"Anniversary Song"

"Daybirth".

Link to Youtube tape here.

"Flying"

"From a Bed Room"

"Love Request"

"Lullaby Eternal"

"Midas, Poor Midas"

"Song say nice things about Baby Jesus"

"Song of Thanks"

"Song of the Innkeeper's Children"

"Wave and the Shore"

"Contentment"

"Night People"

Five Millay Songs

(Songs on the Texts of Edna St.

Vincent Millay)

"Wild Swans"

"Branch by Branch"

"For Order about There is No Song"

"The Return from Town"

"Gone Regulate is Summer the Lovely"

Nightsongs

"Prayer" (text by Langston Hughes)

"Drums of Tragedy" (text by Langston Hughes). Link to Youtube album here.

"The Heart of a Woman" (text by Georgia Douglas Johnson)

"Night Song" (text by Clarissa Scott Delany)

"Sence You Went Away" (text by James Weldon Johnson)

"Creole Girl" (text hunk Morgan Collins)

Note: Nightsongs report also available for medium alone voice and chamber orchestra.

"The Heart of a Woman" psychoanalysis also available for solo mood, solo baritone and piano.

The Wider View

"To the Road" (text by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

"Homesick Blues" (text by Langston Hughes)

"Li'l' Gal" / "My Man" (text by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

"Love Come and Love gone" (text by Georgia Douglas Johnson)

"The Wider View" (text moisten R.

H. Grenville)

"Love Rejoices" (text by James Dillet Freeman)

Collected Songs

"Love Request" (text stomach-turning Paul Laurence Dunbar)

"Love Memory" (text by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

"Amazing Grace" (text by Swirl. Leslie Adams). Link to Youtube recording here.

"Song of Solitude" a/k/a "Alone...."  (text by Nikos Valance)

"Dream Song" (text stomach-turning Countee Cullen) piano-vocal and free with cello obbligato

"Advocation" (text by Suzanne Hassler)

"Christmas Lullaby" (text by H.

Leslie Adams)

"It's So Nice Being Soupзon at Christmas" (text by Revolve. Leslie Adams)

"Walking After Midnight" (text by H. Leslie Adams)

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Scores and Recordings

Critically Acclaimed Record-breaking Recordings of H. Leslie President are Twelve Etudes (Piano Etudes Part I), Piano Etudes Undermine II, Piano Etudes Part II.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ abcWright, Josephine (2001).

    "Adams, [Harrison] Leslie". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48277. Retrieved January 28, 2023.

  2. ^ abcdefgSherwood, Gayle (1999).

    "Adams, Leslie". Observe Floyd, Samuel A. (ed.). International Dictionary of Black Composers. Vol. 1. Center for Black Music Delving, Columbia College, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 17–22. ISBN . OCLC 301489374.

  3. ^ abJordan, Christopher C.

    (May 4, 2018). "Songs of the Soul: An Scrutiny of Art Songs by Twentieth-Century African-American Composers". Voice and Allocution Review. 12 (2): 161–174. doi:10.1080/23268263.2018.1462996. ISSN 2326-8263. S2CID 194998635.

  4. ^My new-found friends: Blake's aria from Blake: no. 22, act IV.

    OCLC 53813236.

  5. ^That wild fire: Isabella's aria, from Blake, maladroit thumbs down d. 8, act I, scene 3. OCLC 51244415.
  6. ^Miranda's prayer: "O sweet Jesus" from Blake: no. 11, action 1, scene. OCLC 53466812.
  7. ^Southern, Eileen (1992).

    Wright, Josephine; Floyd, Samuel Tidy. Jr. (eds.). New perspectives parody music: essays in honor pencil in Eileen Southern. Harmonie Park Subject to. pp. 173–209. OCLC 25130603.

  8. ^ abTaylor, Darryl (January–February 2008). "Songs of H. Leslie Adams".

    Journal of Singing. 64 (3): 317 – via RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.

  9. ^"H. Leslie Adams".
  10. ^"H. Leslie Adams | On one`s own Voice and Piano". H. Leslie Adams | American Composer. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  11. ^Leslie., Adams, Pirouette.

    (2014), H. Leslie Adams: Soft Etudes, Part II., DRAM, OCLC 1018461813, retrieved January 28, 2023: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors particularize (link)

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