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James Clifton Williams, Jr. (26 March 1923 Traskwood, Arkansas — 12 February 1976 Miami, Florida) was an American composer, pianist, French hornist, mellophonist, music theorist, conductor, and music educator. Williams was known by symphony patrons as a virtuoso French hornist with the San Antonio and New Orleans Symphony Orchestras. But he went on to become widely known as one of America's leading wind ensemble composers.〔''Deaths: James Clifton Williams,'' San Diego Union, February 14, 1976, pg. 2〕 == Education == Williams began playing French horn, piano, and mellophone early on and played in the band at Little Rock High School. His senior class of 600 voted him as most outstanding in artistry, talent, and versatility. Williams attended Louisiana State University (B.M., 1947) where he was a pupil of Helen M. Gunderson (1909–1997). He also attended the Eastman School of Music (M.M., 1949) where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. It was Howard Hanson who led Williams to write for the wind band rather than the orchestra, counseling Williams that he would get larger audiences and a larger range of organizations to perform his music in doing so.〔''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'' ''Seventh edition,'' 1984 ''Eighth edition,'' 1992 ''Ninth edition,'' 2001〕 〔''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians,'' by Nicolas Slonimsky, New York: Schirmer Books, 1997〕 During his musical studies at Louisiana State University Williams joined the fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest, oldest musical fraternity in America. Later in his career, he honored this fraternity with a symphonic concert march, "The Sinfonians," that remains a staple of the concert band's repertoire today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clifton Williams (composer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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