Editing David Diamond (composer) (section)

==Life and career==
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]]<ref name="Olmstead2012">{{cite book|author=[[Andrea Olmstead]]|title=Roger Sessions: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9z1QegJ4_RcC&pg=PA16|date=6 August 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-86892-5|pages=16–}}</ref> in New York City and [[Nadia Boulanger]] in Paris. He won a number of awards including three [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s.

Diamond's most popular piece is ''Rounds'' (1944) for [[string orchestra]]. Among his other works are eleven [[symphony|symphonies]] (the last in 1993), [[concerto]]s including three for [[violin]], eleven [[string quartet]]s, music for [[wind ensemble]], other [[chamber music]], [[piano]] pieces and vocal music.

He 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).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/seeItNow.html |title=See It Now |publisher=Classicthemes.com |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref>

Diamond was named honorary composer-in-residence of the [[Seattle Symphony]]. He was a longtime member of the [[Juilliard School]] faculty, his notable students including [[Alan Belkin]], [[Robert Black (conductor)|Robert Black]], [[Kenneth Fuchs]], [[Albert Glinsky]], [[Daron Hagen]], [[Adolphus Hailstork]], [[Anthony Iannaccone]], [[Philip Lasser]], [[Lowell Liebermann]], [[Alasdair MacLean]], [[Charles Strouse]], [[Francis Thorne]], [[Kendall Durelle Briggs]] and [[Eric Whitacre]]. Diamond is also credited with advising [[Glenn Gould]] on his mid-career work, most notably his String Quartet, Op. 1.

In 1995, he was awarded the [[National Medal of Arts]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html |title=Lifetime Honors: National Medal of Arts |access-date=2012-04-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106055028/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#95 |archive-date=January 6, 2013 }}</ref> In 1991 he was awarded the [[Edward MacDowell Medal]].<ref>{{cite web |title=David Diamond - Artist |url=https://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists/david-diamond |website=www.macdowellcolony.org |language=en}}</ref>

Diamond was openly [[gay]]<ref name="McFarland, John 2006 glbtq.com">McFarland, John (2006). "[http://www.glbtq.com/arts/diamond_d.html Diamond, David] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629001755/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/diamond_d.html |date=2008-06-29 }}", ''glbtq.com''.</ref> long before it was socially acceptable, and believed his career was slowed by [[homophobia]] and [[antisemitism]].<ref name="McFarland, John 2006 glbtq.com" /><ref>[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/06/16/david_diamond_89_composed_symphonies_of_intensity_1118903057/ "David Diamond, 89; composed symphonies of intensity"] by Richard Dyer, ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', June 16, 2005</ref> According to an obituary in ''[[The Guardian]]'' however, "He enjoyed enormous success in the 1940s and early '50s with champions that included Koussevitzky, Bernstein, Munch, Ormandy and Mitropoulos but, in the 1960s and '70s, the serial and modernist schools pushed him into the shadows."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/Awards%20Issue%202005/42/803725/|title=Obituaries: David Diamond Composer|work=[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]|date=2005}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' similarly referred to Diamond as "a major American composer whose early brilliance in the 1940s was eclipsed by the dominance of atonal music... He was part of what some considered a forgotten generation of great American symphonists, including [[Howard Hanson]], [[Roy Harris]], [[William Schuman]], [[Walter Piston]] and [[Peter Mennin]]."<ref>Wakin, Daniel J. "David Diamond, 89, Intensely Lyrical Composer, Is Dead". ''The New York Times''. June 15, 2005</ref> ''The New York Times'' also suggested that Diamond's career troubles may have also been caused by his "difficult personality... he said in the 1990 interview, 'I was a highly emotional young man, very honest in my behavior, and I would say things in public that would cause a scene between me and, for instance, a conductor.'"

In 2005, Diamond died at his home in [[Brighton, Monroe County, New York]], from [[heart failure]].