David Diamond News
American classical composer (1915-2005)
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: David Diamond)
- violin
- symphony, opera, film score, ballet, art song, symphonic music, contemporary classical music
- United States of America
- composer, screenwriter, film score composer
Last update
2024-03-28
Refresh
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] I was deeply impressed by the experience, and especially by the slow movement, but never imagined that I would write a book about this symphony a few years later (2011). Eventually I began to go more often to hear concerts in Symphony Hall and to watch Charles Munch. I was blown away by my first experience of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion under Munch’s direction, in 1957. That year he also directed the premiere of David Diamond’s Sixth Symphony, which was savaged by the critics the next day, but I had gone there to hear Franck’s Symphony in D Minor. In college I went to Symphony much more frequently, sometimes packing a brown-bag sandwich and skipping a Friday morning class to get in line for 90-cent rush seats (second balcony center). In 1957 I heard the Boston premiere of Stravinsky’s Agon, which used up so much rehearsal time that Bruckner’s Seventh, […]
2023-12-08 05:00:00
A Mixed Bag of Orchestral Works (Andsnes, Handley, Janssons, Loughran, Panula, Westerberg, Wordsworth et al)
Classical Favourites:01 Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, op.84 [8'56]02 - 03 Franz Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor. D.759 'Unfinished' [26'14]04 - 07 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550 [30'50]Ulster Orchestra conducted by Vernon HandleyChandos CHAN 8746 [recorded January & February 1989; CD issued 1989][digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]Recording venue: Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern IrelandRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensJean Sibelius in the Bar of M/S Finlandia:01 Musette - No.2 from King Christian II, op.27 [2'07]02 Finlandia-hymni, op.26 no.7 [2'00]03 Polonaise, op.40 [2'06]04 Valse Triste, op.44 no.1 [4'38]05 Oriental Procession - No.1 from Belshazzar's Feast Suite, op.51 [2'33]06 Khadra's Dance - No.4 from Belshazzar's Feast Suite, op.51 [3'55]07 Romanssi 'Romance', op.78 no.2 [3'22]08 Alla Marcia - No.3 from Karelia Suite, op.11 [5'23]09 Timantti hangella 'The Diamond on the March Snow', op.36 no.6 [2'35]10 Fool's song of the spider - No.4 from King Christian […]
2023-11-08 08:49:00
The Monarch's Music: recorded as part of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations and released to serendipitously celebrate the 2023 Coronation
[…] version brings to the piece. This is followed by RVW's version of Old Hundredth, first heard at the 1953 Coronation but rightly used regularly on large occasions. It is a terrific piece, blending ceremonial fanfare with RVW's sheer love of the hymnal.We then move into less well-trodden territory, the Te Deum from Elgar's Te Deum and Benedictus Op. 34, written in 1897 for the Hereford Music Festival. Whilst Elgar did write the Imperial March for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria in 1897, this work has no direct connection though it influenced Stanford's Te Deum for Edward VII's Coronation. No matter, it is a welcome inclusion on the disc, moving things into a less hackneyed area. The band gets a rest here, and it is performed with organ accompaniment with organist Luke Bond getting a good work out in the long and very Elgarian peroration before the choir's stirring, unison first […]
2023-10-11 18:45:00
or
- timeline: Composers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): D...