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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 ...

Performance Today presents a tribute to an American icon, composer David Diamond. He died Monday, just four weeks short of his 90th birthday. We hear Diamond's own thoughts on his music and those of ...

The Seattle Symphony and conductor Gerard Schwarz are back, this time in concert. We're at Benaroya Hall in Seattle to hear the orchestra play the Symphony No. 2 by Virgil Thomson. The guest of honor ...

Host Fred Child spoke with American conductor David Diamond just a few weeks before Diamond died at age 89 in New York. The composer had just joined the Seattle Symphony as guest of honor at their ...