Overview
A woman composer, much less one with an international classical footprint, is a rare jewel in a world populated with Mozarts, Bachs, Rachmoninoffs, and John Williams, but despite barriers holding others out, Emma Lou Diemer carved her place. This is the memoir of a woman who was raised to not be afraid, to dare tread in a man's field of dreams. It is the story of a young girl who was blessed with both talent and a musically educated family. And she used them to bring a unique beauty to the notes of her music that she has composed for almost 80 years. Follow Emma Lou's family and career toward both composer and instructor through her words of reflection and images of time in this wonderful celebration of a life dedicated to the fusion of emotion and song in My Life as a Woman Composer.
Full Product Details
Author: Emma Lou Diemer ,
Steve Gierhart
Publisher: Ardent Writer Press, LLC
Imprint: Ardent Writer Press, LLC
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.980kg
ISBN: 9781640661271
ISBN 10: 1640661271
Pages: 460
Publication Date: 04 December 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Emma Lou Diemer was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 24, 1927. Her parents were Myrtle Casebolt Diemer (1889-1961), homemaker and church worker. Her father was George Willis Diemer (1885-1956), educator, college president. Her sister was Dorothy Diemer Hendry (1918-2006). Her brothers were George Willis Diemer II (1920-1944) and John Irving Diemer (1920-1964). Emma Lou received music composition degrees at the Yale School of Music (BM, 1949; MM, 1950) and the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D, 1960). She studied composition and piano on a Fulbright Scholarship at the RoyalConservatoire in Brussels, Belgium (1952-53) and at the Berkshire Music Center (summers 1954 and 1955). She taught piano and organ at colleges in Missouri (Park, William Jewell, Kansas City Conservatory) in the 1950s and theory and composition at the University of Maryland (1965-70) and at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1971-1991). She was composer-in-residence in the Arlington, VA schools under the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project (1959-61) and composer-in-residence with the Santa Barbara Symphony (1989-1991). Honors have included a NEA fellowship in electronic music, a Friedheim/Kennedy Center award for her piano concerto, many commissions for chamber, orchestral, piano, organ, choral music. Her music has been published since 1957 and much of it is recorded. Her website is emmaloudiemermusic.com.
