David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music. Diamond is a blood relative of Lucchese crime family mob associate Stanley Diamond. is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Kinship terminology refers to the words used in a specific culture to describe a specific system of familial relationships. ... The Lucchese crime family is one of the Five Families that controls organized crime activities in New York City, USA, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). ... Stanley Diamond was a member of the Vario Crew from the 1950s until its breakup in 1982. ...

He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He won a number of awards including three Guggenheim Fellowships, and is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. Many of his works are tonal or modestly modal. His early compositions are typically triadic, often with widely spaced harmonies, giving them a distinctly American tone, but some of his works are consciously French in style. His later style became more chromatic. Nickname: Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Location of Rochester in New York State Country United States State New York County Monroe Government  - Mayor Robert Duffy Area  - City  37. ... Located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, the Cleveland Institute of Music is one of the nations premier music conservatories. ... The Eastman School of Music (also known more simply as The Eastman School, Eastman, or ESM) is a music conservatory located in the United States. ... Bernard Rogers (February 4, 1893- May 24, 1968) is an American composer. ... Roger Sessions (28 December 1896 – 16 March 1985) was an American composer, critic and teacher of music. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Nadia Boulanger (September 16, 1887 – October 22, 1979) was an influential French composer, conductor, and music professor. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... Tonality is a system of writing music according to certain hierarchical pitch relationships around a key center or tonic. ... In music, a scale is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. ... This article is about musical harmony. ... In music, chromatic indicates the inclusion of notes not in the prevailing scale and is also used for those notes themselves (Shir-Cliff et al 1965, p. ...

Diamond died at his home in Brighton from heart failure. Brighton is a town in Monroe County, New York, USA. The population was 35,588 at the 2000 census. ...

Diamond's most popular piece is Rounds (1944) for string orchestra. Among his other works are eleven symphonies (the last in 1993), concertos including three for violin, eleven string quartets, music for wind ensemble, other chamber music, piano pieces and vocal music. A string orchestra is an orchestra composed solely of stringed instruments. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The term concerto (plural is concerti or concertos) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ... A wind band, also called concert band, symphonic band, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of woodwind, brass, percussion instruments, and often string bass. ... Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ...

He also composed the musical theme heard on the CBS Radio Network broadcast "Hear It Now" (1950-51) and its TV successor, "See It Now" (1951-58); (see [1]).

A longtime member of the Juilliard School faculty, Diamond was also named honorary composer-in-residence of the Seattle Symphony. His notable students include Daron Hagen, Adolphus Hailstork, Anthony Iannaccone, Alisdair MacLean and Lowell Liebermann. Diamond is also credited with advising Glenn Gould on his mid-career work, most notably Gould's String Quartet Op.1. The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... Daron Aric Hagen Daron Aric Hagen (born November 4, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and opera. ... Adolphus Hailstork (born Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III, Rochester, New York, April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. ... Anthony Iannaccone is an important American composer whose expressive manner has moved from the twelve-tone style of his early music to the more accessible character of most of his works after 1975. ... Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961 in New York City) is an American composer. ... Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. ...

Works

Ballets

• TOM (1936)

Orchestra

• Symphonies
  • Symphony No. 1 (1940)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1942-1943)
  • Symphony No. 3 (1945)
  • Symphony No. 4 (1945)
  • Symphony No. 5 (1947-1964)
  • Symphony No. 6 (1951)
  • Symphony No. 7 (1957)
  • Symphony No. 8 (1958-1960)
  • Symphony No. 9 (1985)
  • Symphony No. 10 (1980s)
  • Symphony No. 11 (1989-1991)
• Psalm (1936)
• Rounds for String Orchestra (1944)

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Concertante

• Violin Concerto No. 1 (1937)
• Concerto for Small Orchestra (1940)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 (1947)
• Violin Concerto No. 3 (1976)
• Kaddish, for cello and orchestra (1987)

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Chamber

• String Quartet No. 1 (1940)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1943-4)
• String Quartet No. 3 (1946)
• String Quartet No. 4 (1951)
• String Quartet No. 5 (1960)
• String Quartet No. 6 (1962)
• String Quartet No. 7 (1963)
• String Quartet No. 8 (1964)
• String Quartet No. 9 (1965-1968)
• String Quartet No. 10 (1966)
• String Quartet No. 11

Wind Ensemble

• Tantivy (1988)
• Hearts Music (1989)

Vocal

David Mourns for Absalom (1946) text is II Samuel 18:33

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