Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
Don Gillis (1912-1978)
Bio
Gillis was born in Missouri and he studied at Texas Christian University. He worked in radio eventually rising to the post of producer for the NBC Symphony Orchestra. He taught in several institutions in the United States and settled finally at the University of South Carolina where he founded the Institute for Media Arts.
Music
Symphony No.5½ "A Symphony for Fun"
Symphony No. 5 "In Memoriam"
Symphony No. 4 "The Pioneers"
Symphony No. 7 "Saga of the Prairie School"
Symphony No. 3 "A Symphony for Free Men"
Symphony No. 2 "A Symphony of Faith"
Portrait of a Frontier Town
Symphony No. 9 "Star-Spangled Symphony"
Symphony X "Big D"
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