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H. Leslie Adams

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE IN MUSIC

When H. Leslie Adams’ parents signed him up for piano lessons at the age of four, they couldn’t have known it would lead to a lifelong career as an acclaimed composer of numerous works for solo instruments, songs, orchestral and theatrical works.

“They wanted to keep me active and not out on the streets as many kids were during the Depression,” says Leslie, who still lives in the Glenville home his parents bought in , two years before he was born.

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Today, he has nothing but fond recollections of an idyllic youth spent playing in the parks, absorbing the masterpieces at the Cleveland Museum of Art, getting his heart racing at amusement parks, watching movies with his mom, and being awed by the Metropolitan Opera when they performed for a week at Public Hall.

“I learned that what I wanted to express was beauty,” he explains.

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