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Emma Lou Diemer is a native of Kansas City, Missouri.She received her education from the Yale School ofMusic (MMus. in composition), Eastman School ofMusic (PhD in composition), with further study on aFulbright Scholarship in Belgium and two summers atthe Berkshire Music Center. She was composer-in-residence in the Arlington, Virginia schools under theFord Foundation Young Composer Project. She was onthe composition/theory faculty of the University ofMaryland (1965-1970) and University of California,Santa Barabara (1971-1991) where she is professoremeritus.

Dr. Diemer’s music has been published since 1957 and includes works in almost all genres.A number of orchestra, chamber, vocal, choral, and keyboard works have been recorded.She has received numerous commissions and an ASCAP award annually since 1962 forperformances and publications.

Effervescence Oh, what is so effervescent as a day in the spring,When the world is full of damp air,When the pollen blows off each plant and each shrubAnd thence into everyone’s hair?Oh, the feel of it! Joyous spring!The sweet scent of onion in the grass,The pungent fragrance at twilight,The soft melody of voices gently purring.The faint trickle of rain drops down the nose.Dogwoods, green and white, lovelyWith the rising sun shining through them…The world is living, singing, laughing in the spring.

– Excerpts from an essay byFlannery (M. F.) O’Connor

(1925-1964)

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*Soprano and Alto ranges are extended for divisi sections.