Background
Williams, Ernest S. was born on September 27, 1881 in Wayne Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Samuel E. and Ella (Hough) Williams.
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Ernest S. Williams
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Trained by father; student under music teachers New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, 1900-1907. Doctor of Music, Capitol College of Music, 1937.
Career
Toured with bands Sousa, 1903. Pryor, 1915; Conway, 1916. Goldman, 1917-1923, world tour, 1912-1913.
Bandmaster Boston (Massachusetts) Cadet Band, 1904-1907. Director own band Lakeside Park, Denver, Colorado, 1911. Cond. Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, 1929-1930.
Bandmaster Kismet Temple, 1920. 1st trumpet Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski, Victor Herbert, Richard Straus, George Enesco, Vincent D’Indy, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, 1917-1923. Director Ernest Williams School of Music, since 1922, teaching many noted artists.
Director symphonic band, New York University, 1935-1945. Teacher trumpet, Juilliard School of Music, 1936-1945. Conductor Catskill Mountain Symphony Orchestra, summers since 1930.
Director Ernest Williams Music Camp. Saugerties, New York, summers since 1930.
Membership
Served as bandmaster United States Army, 1898-1900.
Connections
Married Gladys A. Rice, July 8, 1944.
