Emma lou diemer choral works of robert

          Diemer wrote many choral works as well..

           Emma Lou Diemer

          Emma Lou Diemer (1927-2024) was a native of Kansas City, Missouri.

          Best known in the world of choral music for her Three Madrigals, Diemer's favorite compositional medium is chorus with orchestral accompaniment.

        1. Conductor Robert Duff and the Brandeis University Chorus look at American choral works by Emma Lou Diemer, Gwyneth Walker, Joan Szmyko, and Eric Whitacre.
        2. Diemer wrote many choral works as well.
        3. Texts and Translations to Lieder and other classical vocal works in more than a hundred languages.
        4. Emma Lou Diemer, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, received her degrees in music composition from the Yale School of Music (BM, MM) and the.

          5. She studied piano from an early age, wrote little piano pieces as a child, and began to play the organ in church at age 13 (First Christian Church in Warrensburg, MO where the family had moved: her father having become president of Central MO State College).

          She determined to be a composer about that time with a strong interest also in piano, taking lessons at the K.C. Conservatory (with Wiktor Labunski).

          After high school she elected to major in composition in a school of music rather than attend a liberal arts college.

          Her degrees in composition are from the Yale School of Music (BM,1949; MM, 1950) and from the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D.,1960), and she studied composition further in Brussels on a Fulbright Scholarship (1952-53) and at the Berkshire Music Center (summers of 1954, 1955).



          From 1954-57 she taught in several schools in the Kansas City area (Park College, William Jewell C