Elelctric Diamond

"A wonderful trip into the asteroids...a fully symphonic piece of intense dignity and feeling."
VARIETY

"Turning rock and roll into chamber music may be about as elusive a trick as the alchemists' dream of turning lead into gold, but Stuart Diamond, at least to my ears has done it...ahead of his time."
MIAMI HERALD

"Imaginative, visual , linear music the music Tolkien might have written if he had used a piano instead of a pen"
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

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Music From Another Time

Stuart Diamond - Electronic Wind Instrument

Don Slepian - Keyboards

Karen Bentley - Violin (Special Guest Artist)

ELECTRIC DIAMOND is a unique one of a kind ensemble, dedicated to presenting live electronic classical music concerts.

With a blend of electronic and acoustic instruments ELECTRIC DIAMOND revolutionizes the classical music concert scene with exciting new contemporary sounds that appeal to a wide variety of audiences.

Electric Diamond performs selections from
Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

Filmed with the video mode of a still camera at the First Presbyterian Church, East Stroudsburg, PA - March 2008. Opening ceremony for the Older Adult Learning Center at East Stroudsburg University.

ELECTRIC DIAMOND is arguably one of the longest-lived electronic performance ensembles - 35 years plus and going strong. The ensemble first performed in 1976 playing concerts at Carnegie Recital Hall, Symphony Space, the Guggenheim Museum and other venues of the New York 1970s new music scene. In the mid 1980’s electronic wind player founder Stuart Diamond joined forces with the electric electric keyboard innovator Don Slepian, whose credits and talents are legendary – from artist-engineer-in-residence at Bell Laboratories to the original ambient sound painter for “Music form the Hearts of Space”.

Together they began presenting programs that integrated classical music with free-flowing improvisations – from Bach to Mussorgsky, from medieval dances to Native American soundscapes. They have performed throughout America and Asia, performing for the erudite audiences at Steinway Hall to the mass audiences at the Macy’s 4th of July Celebration in downtown Manhattan.

ELECTRIC DIAMOND's performances are truly "live", without the use of any computer sequencing or multi tracking techniques. The results are performances of immediacy, power and authentic feeling.

ELECTRIC DIAMOND’s performances are seamless and flowing meditations, integrating classical, jazz, pop, folk, medieval music into the original sound that is Electric Diamond. Think electronic-classical-raga