Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams (May 14, 1930 – April 24, 1999)
The W. Hazaiah Williams Founders Concert
presented annually by Four Seasons Arts is included in the thousands of
performances now silenced. The soloist to be featured was American
violinist Randall Goosby: https://youtu.be/aJSVT-T1-Xc?list=RDaJSVT-T1-Xc
Dedicated
to the racial and cultural integration and expansion of classical music
audiences and the concert stage, Dr. Williams began presenting concerts
by co-sponsoring a recital by Marian Anderson at the San Francisco War
Memorial Opera House in 1958. He founded and directed Today’s Artists
Concerts, bringing to the Bay Area hundreds of artists from around the
world. For twenty-two years, he presented a series of concerts in New
York’s Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. In 1981, he established the
annual Yachats (Oregon) Music Festival, and in 1993, he created Four
Seasons Arts, serving as President and Artistic Director.
Dr.
Williams believed, at its best, that Art creates images of beauty that
enrich and ennoble as they inspire people to achieve the highest and
best in the human experience. Music is a vehicle through which he
pursued his vision that race, class, gender, religion, sexual
orientation, and language are artificial barriers preventing the human
family from recognizing their enduring commonality.
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