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Grace Mary Williams (19 February 1906 – 10 February 1977) was a Welsh composer, generally regarded as Wales's most notable female composer, and the first British woman to score a feature film. Early life
Leila Grace Williams is a Jamaican former cricketer who played primarily as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling right-arm medium-fast. She appeared in five One Day Internationals for Jamaica at the 1973 World Cup, and eleven Test matches and one One Day International for the West Indies between 1976 and 1979. She also played ...
Grace Williams transferred the location to a Victorian seaside resort. In adapting the short story as an opera, Williams displays "considerable gifts of staging". [4] She was hindered in her early plans to write an opera by the fact that Wales had no opera house of its own and no dedicated orchestra (the Welsh National Opera Company was formed ...
The Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes is a composition for symphonic orchestra, based on traditional Welsh nursery tunes and lullabies, composed by Grace Williams in 1940. . Although not typical of Williams' work it brought her to prominence and is the composer's most popular
Grace Alele-Williams OON, FMAN, FNAE (16 December 1932 – 25 March 2022) was a Nigerian professor of mathematics education, [1] [2] who made history as the first Nigerian woman to receive a doctorate, [3] [4] and the first Nigerian female vice-chancellor at the University of Benin.
Grace Williams composed Sea Sketches in 1944, while living in Hampstead, London. [1] Shortly after completing the work Williams wrote to Gerald Cockshott, in 1945, saying "I don't want to stay in London – I just long to get home and live in comfort by the sea."
Grace Williams is the daughter of Danny Williams and Rachel Edwards. Her parents divorced in the timeline before the pilot and she moved to Hawaii with her mother and millionaire new stepfather. She attends the Academy of the Sacred Heart, a fictional private school, and participates in the cheerleading team.
Grace Williams composed Carillons in 1965 from a commission by the BBC in Wales, who requested "something light-weight and entertaining" for the programme Auditorium. [1] By omitting the usual orchestral woodwind section and making use of high-pitched percussion (triangle, glockenspiel, celesta and tubular bells) Williams created a distinctive orchestral colour with bell-like sounds which ...