Composers Inc. is opening its season with a memorial concert for Diane Elizabeth Clymer-Greenberg at 8 p.m. Oct. 7, in Berkeley's First Congregational Church.
She was raised in Albany, CA, attended Crowden School and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, became music director at the Bentley Lower School in Berkeley.
Her husband, the composer and musicologist Robert Greenberg, says:
A superb, Conservatory-trained flutist, she was equally at home in an orchestra pit, a teaching studio, in front of her students and choristers at the Bentley Lower School in Berkeley (where she was head of music), and — yes — in the kitchen. Diane was one of those special people whose essential mission in life was to make people happy. In this she succeeded entirely.We married, had children (Lillian and Daniel), and then, tragically, not quite 11 months after giving birth to Daniel, Diane died of cancer in 2009. She was 35 years old.
As we approach the fifth anniversary of her death, Composers, Inc. has chosen to honor Diane by naming the opening concert of our annual series in her memory. Speaking for my family, our friends, and myself, we could not be more honored or touched. Diane — for whom music, family, and friends (and okay, food) were so centrally important — would be terrifically pleased.
The program includes music by Greenberg, Cindy Cox, Martin Rokeach, Don Freund Crunch, and Andrew Sigler's Finding the Air Up There (Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award).
Tickets, $15 to $20, are available online or, 30 minutes prior to the concert, at the door.