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	Prolific Composer David Diamond Dies
		David Diamond, 89, a prolific and temperamental composer who defied academic tastes and public indifference to write music of surpassing eloquence and beauty, died June 13 of congestive heart failure at his home in Rochester, N.Y. Despite prolonged periods when his melodic, rhythmically dense works were ignored by conductors and performers, Mr.
		David Leo Diamond was born in Rochester on July 9, 1915, to a family of Jewish immigrants, and taught himself to play the violin by the time he was 7.
		Diamond continued to compose at the peak of his powers well into his later years, and in 1995 was presented the National Medal of the Arts at the White House.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061502400_pf.html (907 words)

	David Diamond, 89; composed symphonies of intensity - The Boston Globe
		The American composer David Diamond died of congestive heart failure on Monday in his birthplace, Rochester, N.Y. He was 89.
		Diamond's strongest advocates for many years was Leonard Bernstein, who led the premieres of his Fourth Symphony in Boston and his Fifth and Eighth in New York.
		Diamond fought anti-Semitism and homophobia throughout his life; he was openly gay long before that became socially acceptable.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/06/16/david_diamond_89_composed_symphonies_of_intensity (473 words)

	David Diamond (composer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music.
		He won a number of awards including three Guggenheim Fellowships, and is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation.
		Diamond died at his home in Brighton from heart failure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Diamond_(composer) (224 words)

	Guardian \| David Diamond
		David Diamond, who has died aged 89, was one of the finest of a fine generation of American composers.
		Diamond's homecoming in 1965 marked the occasion of his 50th birthday, and his old friend Bernstein mounted a memorable concert on April 28 1966, when the New York Philharmonic (of which Bernstein was now music director) premiered his Symphony No 5 (1951-64) and Piano Concerto (1949-50, which Diamond conducted).
		Diamond completed an autobiography, The Midnight Sleep, in 1988, and in 1995 was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton at the White House.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5217819-103684,00.html (1088 words)

	peermusic classical : Composer David Diamond
		David Diamond is unquestionably of the first sort; his talent and his sincerity have never been doubted by his hearers, by his critics, or by his composer colleagues.
		David Diamond was born on July 9, 1915, in Rochester, New York.
		That summer, Diamond was commissioned to compose the music for the ballet TOM to a scenario by E.E. Cummings based on "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Leonide Massine, the choreographer for the ballet, lived near Paris, and Diamond was sent there to be near him.
	www.peermusicclassical.com /composer/composerdetail.cfm?detail=diamond (1136 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: David Diamond, composer, dies at 89
		David Diamond was Seattle Symphony's honorary composer in residence.
		Diamond moved to Paris to study with famed pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and found himself in a highly cultivated milieu.
		Diamond found himself in demand when he returned to New York, and the 1940s were exciting years for him: Friends included Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, and four important conductors, including Bernstein, premiered his first four symphonies.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002335217_diamondobit14m.html (619 words)

	Review/Music; David Diamond Tribute At Waterloo Festival - New York Times
		Diamond's Partita (1935) was performed Friday evening at a festival chamber concert in Princeton, and his Symphony No. 3 (1945) was performed tonight, by the Festival Orchestra under its principal conductor, Gerard Schwarz, in the tent at Waterloo Village.
		Diamond's Third Symphony may have wondered what all the fuss is about, for - though colorful, well crafted and often entertaining - this is hardly an epochal creation.
		Diamond's Second Symphony, composed three years earlier at the height of wartime, the Third appears, for all its intelligent construction, to have little on its mind.
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	Composer Hagen says his style has stayed the course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Composer Daron Hagen has studied with the likes of Leonard Bernstein, David Diamond, Ned Rorem and Bernard Rands and has attended prestigious schools such as Juilliard and Curtis.
		The position is named for Franz Lehar, composer of the operetta "The Merry Widow." Recipients spend a week at Pitt evaluating student composers, speaking publicly and overseeing a concert of their own works.
		Hagen is one of a few composers who have been able to support themselves without a university position.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/07049/762472-42.stm (1084 words)

	The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
		As a student in Rochester, Diamond was fascinated by the cantorial art he heard in the local synagogue and at concerts given by visiting cantorial celebrities—especially, as he could still recall more than seven decades later, the famous Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933).
		Saminsky, an established and respected composer in the general music world who was also one of the major personalities on the American Jewish music scene, took an interest in the young composer's gifts and became something of a patron.
		In fact, Diamond adheres to the view that "atonal" is a misnomer as it is generally applied, since unavoidable tonal poles render truly atonal music impossible.
	www.milkenarchive.org /artists/artists.taf?artistid=143 (1422 words)

	BMOP :: David Diamond
		David Diamond was born on July 9, 1915, in Rochester, New York.
		That summer, Diamond was commissioned to compose the music for the ballet TOM to a scenario by E.E. Cummings based on Uncle Tom's Cabin.
		Diamond's songs for voice and piano are among his finest achievements, sung by the likes of Jennie Tourel, Eileen Farrell, and Eleanor Steber.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=165 (1087 words)

	David Diamond, American composer of symphonies, dies at 89 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Diamond was part of what some call a forgotten generation of great American symphonists that included Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Piston and Peter Mennin.
		Diamond blamed his waning success in part on anti-Semitism and on attitudes toward his open homosexuality.
		Diamond received the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Edward MacDowell medal.
	www.abcactionnews.com /entertainment/stories/0506/050615diamond.shtml (423 words)

	David Diamond (composer) Summary
		The American composer and teacher David Diamond (born 1915) wrote in a wide variety of styles and in virtually every medium.
		Diamond made three trips to Paris in the mid-to-late 1930s (the last through funds from the first of three Guggenheim Fellowships), where he studied with the famous French teacher, Nadia Boulanger, and met many of the great artists then living in Paris, such as Albert Roussel, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, André Gide, and Charles Munch.
		Diamond lectured on American music in Salzburg during the summer of 1949, and two years later went to Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship.
	www.bookrags.com /David_Diamond_(composer) (1080 words)

	David Diamond - Encyclopedia.com
		Rochester, N.Y. Diamond was trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School; he also studied with Roger Sessions in New York and Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
		He composed in a variety of styles, beginning with neoclassical works in the 1930s and later developed an intensely lyrical neoromanticism.
		Diamond wrote much chamber music, including 10 string quartets; many preludes and fugues; songs and other vocal pieces; 11 symphonies; ballets and film scores; music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens; and Rounds (1944), for strings, his best-known work.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Diamond.html (520 words)

	Democrat & Chronicle: Composer David Diamond dies at 89 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Diamond was also a busy and distinguished music professor, and his numerous students (including classical composer Lowell Liebermann, Broadway composer Charles Strouse and Rochester composer and conductor Paul Stuart) will undoubtedly be considered a significant part of his musical legacy.
		Diamond was born in Rochester on July 15, 1915, the son of East European immigrants.
		Diamond is survived by one nephew, Noal Cohen, of New Jersey.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Dato=20050614&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=506140341&Ref=AR&template=printart (1829 words)

	cantonrep.com - Composer David Diamond, 89, Dies
		David Diamond, a prolific American composer who studied in Paris with famed pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, died from heart failure Monday at his home in Brighton, N.Y. He was 89.
		Diamond was outspoken about his homosexuality, which he believed hampered his career.
		Diamond is survived by a nephew, Noal Cohen, of New Jersey.
	www.cantonrep.com /printable.php?ID=228142 (392 words)

	Composer David Diamond dies at 89 - organissimo jazz forums - This is the place to discuss the band, jazz, and more!
		Diamond could be prickly and dour, a sometimes troublesome character by his own admission, who knew many of the greatest composers and conductors of the 20th century.
		Diamond wrote music marked by a deep sense of structure - he was a master of fugues and sets of variations - and at times by tart harmonies and wiry melodies.
		Diamond was prolific in many forms, including ballets and film scores, but his greatest contributions were his 10 string quartets, a large output of songs and, chiefly, 11 symphonies.
	www.organissimo.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=20058 (1478 words)

	classical music - andante - composer david diamond has died at age 89
		Diamond was part of what some call a forgotten generation of great American symphonists that included Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Piston and Peter Mennin.
		Diamond was born July 9, 1915, in Rochester.
		Diamond blamed his waning success in part on anti-Semitism and on attitudes toward his open homosexuality.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25626 (460 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		David Diamond, a prolific composer known for his lyrical sensibilities and feisty temperament, died of congestive heart failure on June 13 in his native Rochester, N.Y. He was 89.
		The son of Austrian and Polish immigrants, David Leo Diamond was born in Rochester on July 9, 1915.
		Diamond's views about his art can best be summed up in his own words: "Our society needs consonance; it was always a must, because of the communicative power of that kind of music," he said in an interview with The Seattle Times just a month before he died.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles641.html (699 words)

	Interivew with Georg Perle, George Crumb & David Diamond
		How a composer goes about writing, he believes, doesn't change because of stylistic fads, receptiveness of audiences, or whether or not commissions are rolling in.
		Diamond, a 20th-century classicist known for his finely-crafted symphonic works, is also 83 and was writing his first commission when Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected President.
		Diamond taught for a quarter century at The Juilliard School, ensuring that every student who had aspirations to be a composer was solidly grounded in traditional training before they were allowed to delve into any abstruse language of their own.
	www.americancomposers.org /millen1.htm (1368 words)

	Diamond, David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Rochester, N.Y. Diamond was trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School; he also studied with Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger.
		He has composed in a variety of styles, beginning with neoclassical works in the 1930s and developing a romantic phase prior to his use of twelve-tone technique in the late 1950s.
		Diamond has written much chamber and vocal music; nine symphonies; music for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens; and Rounds (1944), for strings, his best-known work.
	www.bartleby.com /65/di/Diamond.html (139 words)

	David Diamond, 1915-2005: Composer was responsible for 11 symphonies
		By R.M. David Diamond, honorary composer-in-residence at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, died Monday at his home in Rochester, N.Y. He was 89.
		The composer was an integral part of a group of midcentury American composers whose reputations Gerard Schwarz, music director of the symphony, helped revive in the 1980s and 1990s by performances and recordings.
		Their music, and Diamond's in particular, was the focal point of the symphony's "Made in America" Festival last month, which Diamond attended.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /classical/228440_diamondobit15.html?searchpagefrom=13&searchdiff=9 (606 words)

	David Diamond - American composer David Diamond died in June 2005, aged 89. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		David Diamond - American composer David Diamond died in June 2005, aged 89.
		American composer David Diamond died of heart failure at home in Brighton, Rochester, NY, USA on 13 June 2005, aged 89, one of the last members of the American Romantic Movement.
		Born in Rochester on 9 July 1915, Diamond was the son of East European immigrants - a cabinetmaker and a dressmaker.
	www.mvdaily.com /news/item.cgi?id=300624 (219 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine
		David Diamond, one of the most acclaimed and prolific of 20th-century American composers, died on June 13 aged 89.
		The serial and modernist schools of the 1960s and '70s pushed Diamond and other neo-romantics into the shadows, but the composer enjoyed renewed attention in his last decade, largely through the advocacy and recordings of conductor Gerard Schwarz.
		Diamond was so disruptive that music director Artur Rodzinski had him banned from Carnegie Hall.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2389&newssectionID=1 (395 words)

	mfiles - free music files and notes: Sheet Music, MIDI and MP3
		The composer Edvard Grieg was born in Norway of Scottish descent, and is best known for the way he incorporated the styles of Norwegian folk music into his works.
		Composer Mark Isham paints the ordinary man with a simple piano melody accompanied by atmospheric strings, and contrasts this troubled peace with some rhythmic hard-hitting action sequences.
		Blood Diamond is one of those soundtracks that could easily pass for a world music record, though one of epic proportions.
	www.mfiles.co.uk (2154 words)

	American Composers - NPRN Composer of the Month
		David Diamond's pedigree should have assured him of considerable success as a composer.
		Diamond's music contains lean and economical textures but colorful scoring, often unfolding according to traditional formal procedures.
		Occasional twelve-tone melodies fall short of rigorous serial treatment, and Diamond's rhythmic alertness and transparent harmonies remind some listeners of Stravinsky, for whom he played some of his works in the 1930s.
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmamdiamond.html (231 words)

	David Diamond program notes (Mar'04) \| Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
		David Diamond (b.1915) is often referred to as "The Dean of American Composers," a dubious title that not only draws a chuckle from him, but is especially remarkable considering his divergence from many of the modernistic paths of the last 50 years.
		Diamond remained his own man, never bowing to pressures and never worrying himself when followers were few.
		Diamond studied with luminaries Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger, and has taught at Salzburg and Juilliard.
	www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org /Diamnd43.htm (225 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Composer David Diamond Dies at Age 89
		ROCHESTER, N.Y. David Diamond, a distinguished American composer who wrote 11 symphonies and 10 string quartets, as well as ballets and film scores, has died.
		Diamond died Monday of congestive heart failure, Samuel Elliott, a friend who took care of his affairs, told The New York Times.
		Speaking of Diamond's work, Schwarz told the Times: "I would say that it was beautiful music, in the sense he had a tremendous melodic gift.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/listen/2005/jun/15/061504623.html (432 words)

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