(Harrison) Leslie Adams

"Takka Takka" (1962), oil on canvas, 173 x 143 cm, of the painter Roy Lichtenstein, contemporary of Adams (Museum Ludwig, Cologne)

(1932-)

The composer (Harrison) Leslie Adams was born in Cleveland on the 30th December 1932, the same year of the composers Barkin, Brevik, Castiglioni, Christiansen, Colgrass, Deák, Eyser, Goehr, Hedwall, Johnson, Klein, Kutavicius, Leduc, Levy, Mailman, Mandelbaum, Manzoni, Marez Oyens, Meale, Norgård, Poné, Popovici, Shchedrin, Slonimsky, Smutný, Stroe, Stuhec.

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of 1900

OPERE

"Blake" was performed on the 24th of October 1997 in Baltimore

LIEDER

"Love Response", text of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

"Love Memory", text of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

"The Wider View", text of R. H. Grenville (1941-58)

"Love Come and Gone", text of Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)

"Li'l Gal" (Oh, de weathah it is balmy an' de breeze is sighin' low), text of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

"To the Road!", text of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

"Creole Girl", text of Leslie Morgan Collins

"Since You Went Away", text of James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

"Night Song", text of Clarissa M. Scott Delany (1901-1927)

"The Heart of a Woman", text of Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)

"Wild Swans" (I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over), text of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

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