David Diamond(1915-2005)
- Composer
- Music Department
Composer and educator, educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music,
the Eastman School of Music, and the New Music School. He studied with
Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger. He received Elfrida Whiteman,
Guggenheim, and National Academy of Arts and Letters grants and Prix de
Rome, Paderewski, and Ernest Bloch awards. He joined ASCAP in 1946, and
went to Europe in 1951 as a Fulbright professor (he was a Slee
professor at the University of Boston in 1951). He joined the faculty
at the Manhattan School of Music in 1965, and was a member of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters. His vocal compositions include
"David Mourns for Absalom", "Lift Not the Painted Veil", and "Love Is
More".
