The Ingenuity Festival of Greater Cleveland held "An Evening of Music by H. Leslie Adams" on July 15, 2006. Participants included pianist Halida Dinova, cellist Heidi Albert, and soloists from the Cleveland Opera.
T. J. Anderson received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Iowa's Alumni Association on June 10, 2006.
Wallace Cheatham presented a workshop, "Black Saints in Hymns," at the convention of the American Guild of Organists in Chicago in July. He composed a hymn celebrating the life of Richard Alien for the event. At the Double Reed Society convention in Muncie, Indiana, he accompanied bassoonist Monte Perkins for the premiere of a sonata for bassoon …