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Williams was born and raised in Philadelphia PA, in the North Philly section of the city. It was there where he realized his love for music, and his gift for playing the keyboard. He credits much of his early influence to the late Bill Doggett, a Philadelphia-born jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist who was best known for his compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy"; and playing with the Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan. Doggett, whose mother lived two doors down from the Williams’ family, would drop by and visit Bryan while in the City. Williams said, “Every time he was in town, he would stop by and show he some things on the piano.

Terry Tempest Williams and Wangari Maathai are both very powerful women who devoted their lives to improving the world one step at a time. Williams, the author of Refuge, is a naturalist, a feminist, and a writer who brings such power into everything she touches. Her passion for change has brought so much goodness into the world. She has beat many obstacles, including her own struggle with herself, which to her is the same fight we have with nature, and finally accepting the outcome; whatever that may be unnatural, or natural, is the secret to life. While we read about what Terry Tempest Williams writes about her mother’s difficulties while struggling with cancer, we also have Wangari Maathai speaking about all the violence she faces in Kenya.

John Towner Williams was born in New York City on February 8, 1932. He acquired his love of music from his father who was a musician in the city. His passion for music took a three year hiatus when Williams was drafted in the U.S. Airforce in 1951, after which he returned to New York City to work as a jazz pianist while attending the Julliard School of Music. It was during his studies in Julliard where Williams decided to become a composer, humorously because he thought the competition for concert pianists was too high. After graduating from Julliard he moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and began working as a movie studio musician. He worked as a pianist for a few years before given the opportunity to start composing his own music: Gilligan’s Island and Lost in Space were some he had a part in composing. This was also around the same time that he started working with the big screen movies as well. He received an Academy Award nomination for Valley of the Dolls (1967), then went on to win an Academy Award for his music in Fiddler on the Roof (1972). This was when things got interesting for Williams, the meeting and future collaboration with directors Steven Spielberg and George

Music is a work of art and only the one understands the true importance of music can have a successful career in musical world. On March 18, 1927, a legend was born, in the city of Kansas. John Kander who is one of the many legends who realized the real value and significance of music and devoted his life composing and creating musical masterpiece such as Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Cabaret. He was interested in the world of music since his childhood but worked as a conductor and accompanying pianist in his early career. He later became an inspiration and a role model to thousands of musician all over the globe.

John Duke was one of America’s foremost composers of art song. He was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in the late 1800’s. Due to his musically and literarily inclined parents, Duke had learned to read music from his mother who was a singer. He did great things with music, beginning piano lessons at the age of 11, and entering the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of sixteen, where he studied piano with a pupil of some very famous composers.

From then on he wanted to compose for Broadway. His parents bought a piano when he was seven, and he took lessons locally (Giere). He was later accepted into the Juilliard School of Music for classes in piano and composition. While studying for a BFA in

William Grant Still was born on May 11, 1895 in Woodville, Mississippi. Still’s birth father, a college professor died before he was born (Anonymous, 2002). At age 11, his mother married Charles B. Shepperson in which is where Still was exposed to the world of classical music by attending concerts and operettas. Both Still’s parents desired their son to be cultured, they saw to it that Still became versed in academics, music, literature and the arts. It was Still’s mother who hope he would become a doctor so he enrolled in Wilberforce University as a pre-med student.

“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”(page 50) Lastly, music has already helped me grow and find myself as an individual and I can’t wait to see what the rest of my life has in store for

what he became and did not let anything get in the way of becoming a musician. In this

Born September 17, 1883 to Williams George Williams and Raquel Helene Hoheb, William Carlos Williams was destined to become one of the most influential poets of the 20th Century. Williams was greatly influenced by his family. Although he lived in a house full of men, the two women in his life, mother and grandmother, were the most important adults to him (Baym

William Carlos Williams’ passion and dedication of medicine can be seen through his literary contributions of short stories and poems. The Doctor Stories use interior monologue in a stream-of-consciousness as a tool to reflect each narrator’s experience and gives insight into the character and his appraisal of each of the situations encountered. It is through this stream-of-consciousness that we come to realize the observational nature of this doctor’s actions and thoughts.

My decision to pursue a career as a professional musician is a result of experiences from childhood to present and inspirations along the way. As I gather more experiences and inspirations, it is almost certain that my decision will not

Following his service in the military, Williams returned to New York and began studying piano at the Juilliard School. He also worked as a jazz pianist for nightclubs and on jazz recordings. Eventually, Williams returned to Los Angeles and began his career in the film industry. Williams started off writing music for television shows. In fact, he wrote music for over two hundred television episodes. The first film Williams composed music for was Because They’re Young. The film had limited success, and Williams began receiving nominations for his television work instead. During the seventies, Williams earned an Oscar for his contributions to the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof and gained recognition for his work on a plethora of disaster movies. Then came Jaws in 1975. Williams’ work on the original summer blockbuster earned him two Academy Awards and became the beginning of a long career with Steven Spielberg. The famous two-note leitmotif as the infamous shark approaches

* “when you speak with great educators, and look behind the test scores, the lessons learned in studying music, learning to play an instrument, playing in a band, learning to read music, all provide a richness to a child's education that will last a lifetime,” (par 1).

The end of the 1920s was known for the ending of the silent film in Hollywood. With the advancement of sound technology, it has transformed the way we view films in today’s world. It all began with a film called The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson, Warner Oland, and May McAvoy. The film is about a little boy named Jakie, whose father is a Jewish cantor, and he defied his father by not wanting to follow the family tradition of cantors. He wanted to be a performer, specifically, a jazz singer. One day, he was discovered by his neighbor Moisha and thus he got beat up and kicked out of the house. Jakie vowed to never return home. A decade later, Jackie is a performer with the help of his lover Mary with a new identity by the name of Jack Robin who wears a black face when on stage. One night, his father fell ill and was asked to sing at the synagogue, however, it fell on the same day as his opening show on Broadway. Jakie had to make a tough decision choosing between his family or his career.