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Williams' early musical experience was in school bands and orchestras of
Malvern and Little Rock, Arkansas. His formal education in music
composition included studies at Louisiana State University with Helen
Gunderson and at the Eastman School of Music with Bernard Rogers and
Howard Hanson. A member of the faculty at the University of Texas
in Austin for seventeen years, he became chairman of the department of
theory-composition at the University of Miami School of Music in 1966.
Most widely acclaimed as a composer of serious music for the concert wind band, he composed in many forms and his prizes, awards, and honors were numerous. His compositions in this medium have become basic repertory for American, Canadian, European, and Japanese Bands. In addition to his many other honors, those most recently listed include election to membership in the American Bandmasters Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Professional Music Fraternity, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Music conferred by the National Conservatory of Music at Lima, Peru. His early and untimely death brought an end to one of the most creative talents of the last half of this century. Close Window |
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