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BLAKE (duets, trios, quartets/ensemble selections)
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams Selections from the opera 'Blake' for small ensembles (Solo voices may perform SATB/choral parts in concert)See below for attachment - word doc with detail list and pricing.
Genre/Theme
BLAKE'S ARIA ( MY NEW-FOUND FRIENDS )
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams Vocal w/piano or orchestra.
Instruments
BLAKE: 'THAT WILD FIRE' (ISABELLA'S ARIA)
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams Opera Aria
Ensemble Type
Instruments
BLAKE: MIRANDA'S PRAYER (O SWEET JESUS)
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams Work & sale location: Henry Carl MusicPerusal score available by arrangement.
Ensemble Type
Instruments
COLLECTED SONGS
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams 6 songs on texts of various poets: Love Response by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Love Memory by Paul Laurence Dunbar (LOVE MEMORY for high voice NOW ALSO AVAILABLE FOR BARITONE VOICE); Amazing Grace - text by the composer; Alone . . . Nikos Valance; Advocation by Suzanne Hassler; Christmas Lullaby - text by the composer.
Ensemble Type
DAYBIRTH
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams 17 song Collection on texts by Joette McDonald: On this day, Love Union, In the Midnight of My Soul, Cantus, Anniversary Song, Daybirth, Flying, From a Hotel Room, Love Request, Lullaby Eternal, Midas Poor Midas, Song to Baby Jesus Song of Thanks, Song of the Innkeeper's Children, Wave and the Shore, Contentment, Night People,
Ensemble Type
DUNBAR SONGS
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams Three songs on Texts of Paul Laurence Dunbar for Medium High Voice and keyboard 1. The Meadow Lark 2. He(she) Gave me a rose 3. the Valse.
Ensemble Type
FIVE MILLAY SONGS
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams 5 songs on texts of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Ensemble Type
Hymn to Freedom
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams Commissioned by the Center for Black Music Research, Chicago.
Instruments
Genre/Theme
LOVE EXPRESSIONS for orchestra
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams Love Expressions was commissioned by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony in 1990 and composed and orchestrated during the summer and early fall of that year in Cleveland, Ohio. The work is scored for flute, alternating with piccolo; oboe; b flat clarinet, alternating with e flat alto saxophone; bassoon; f horn; b flat trumpet; tenor trombone; percussion; harp; piano; and strings.
The ten-minute work is in two parts, with each part being five-minutes in duration. The first part, subtitled Love Watlz, is marked Allegro grazioso, and has broad ABCBA structure in 3/4 meter, utilizing a sustained melodic theme underscored by a lilting waltz rhythm in the A and B sections, and a more marked rhythmic theme in the contrasting C section.
The second part, subtitled Love Ballad, has a tempo marking, Largo cantabile, and is in a broad three-part form with coda. Soft strings accompanying a lyrical saxophone solo begin the A section, after which the melody is heard in the first violins. The B section has a blues-like theme, underscored by light percussion, which grows in intensity before subsiding back to the A theme, now sounded by the French horn. A codetta based on the A material ends the movement on a sustained note.
Ensemble Type
Instruments
LOVE MEMORY
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams This piece is part of COLLECTED SONGS. A pdf of both the original high voice version and a version for baritone are available.
Ensemble Type
LULLABY ETERNAL
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams from DAYBIRTH: A collection of songs on texts of Joette McDonald.
Ensemble Type
Instruments
NIGHTSONGS
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams 6 songs: Prayer (Langston Hughes), Drums of Tragedy (Langston Hughes), The Heart of a Woman (Georgia Douglas Johnson), Night Song (Clarissa Scott Delany), Sence You Went Away (James Weldon Johnson), and Creole Girl (Morgan Collins).
THE WIDER VIEW
Composer:
H. Leslie Adams 8 songs: To the Road! - Laurence Dunbar, Homesick Blues -Langston Hughes (HOMESICK BLUES NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN LOW-VOICE KEY), Li'l' Gal - Dunbar, My Man - Dunbar, Love Come and Gone - Georgia Douglas Johnson, The Wider View - R.H. Grenville, and and Love Rejoices - James Dillet Freeman.
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