In addition to An American Concerto his compositions include Gulliver, Romances, Earth Day, Adagio, and August, as well as Suite Memories for trombone and symphony orchestra, which won a 1986 Grammy Spring Wings, a double concerto for piano and saxophone and symphony orchestra Appalachian Morning, recorded by the Boston Pops Memento Mei for solo soprano and orchestra The Prayer of St.
His Theme For Earth Day was recorded by John Williams and the Boston Pops.Īn American Concerto, composed in 1976, was one of the first successful attempts to combine jazz elements with traditional symphonic writing. His jazz-funk arrangement of the Beatles' " Get Back" was used as the longtime theme for the 1970s sports quiz show Sports Challenge, emceed by Dick Enberg.įor clarinetist Eddie Daniels, Williams wrote A Concerto in Swing for saxophonist Tom Scott, he penned Romances for Jazz Soloist and Orchestra. On television, his music accompanied Columbo, Lou Grant, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Streets of San Francisco, and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Williams scored more than 200 films, including Breaking Away, for which he received a 1980 Oscar nomination All of Me, Swing Shift, Cuba, and The Grass Harp. He also held an honorary doctorate from Duke University and performed and/or lectured at such other institutions as the Berklee College of Music, Indiana University, Texas Christian University, UCLA, USC, and Yale University. He was Visiting Professor and Composer-in-Residence at the University of Utah and the University of Colorado, which awarded him an honorary doctorate.
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For five years he served as the Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute - one of the nation's premier training programs for young musicians seeking professional careers in music. Williams was also a leader in the music-education field.
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He quickly became busy as an arranger in New York he moved to California in 1968 to pursue work in the movie and television field while continuing to write and arrange jazz albums. Since music was always his first love, he went on to Columbia University to study music composition and conducting, where his passion became his profession. Patrick Moody Williams (Ap– July 25, 2018) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor who worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.īorn in Missouri, Williams grew up in Connecticut and received a degree in history from Duke University, where he directed the student-run jazz big band, known as the Duke Ambassadors, from 1959 to 1961.
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