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Elliott graduated from [[Wayland High School]] in Connecticut, about 20 miles west of Boston, in 1969. He married one of his classmates. He played clarinet in his school band and wrote his first orchestrations for the the band to play at halftime for their football games. He did not attend college and stated, "I just wanted to be a musician".<ref name="milforddailynews">{{cite web|last1=Olesin|first1=Nancy|title='An American in Paris' features arrangements by Holliston's Bill Elliott|url=http://www.milforddailynews.com/entertainment/20161018/an-american-in-paris-features-arrangements-by-hollistons-bill-elliott|website=milforddailynews.com|publisher=GateHouse Media|accessdate=1 January 2017|date=October 18, 2016}}</ref> |
Elliott graduated from [[Wayland High School]] in Connecticut, about 20 miles west of Boston, in 1969. He married one of his classmates. He played clarinet in his school band and wrote his first orchestrations for the the band to play at halftime for their football games. He did not attend college and stated, "I just wanted to be a musician".<ref name="milforddailynews">{{cite web|last1=Olesin|first1=Nancy|title='An American in Paris' features arrangements by Holliston's Bill Elliott|url=http://www.milforddailynews.com/entertainment/20161018/an-american-in-paris-features-arrangements-by-hollistons-bill-elliott|website=milforddailynews.com|publisher=GateHouse Media|accessdate=1 January 2017|date=October 18, 2016}}</ref> He began playing keyboards and played in local bands. He had some early success with Wayland friends in a country-rock band called [[The Rowan Brothers]], who opened for The Grateful Dead |
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Revision as of 21:15, 1 January 2017
Bill Elliott (born William F. Elliott, October 2, 1951) is a keyboardist, songwriter, composer, and Tony Award winning Broadway ochestrator.[1][2]
Early life
Elliott graduated from Wayland High School in Connecticut, about 20 miles west of Boston, in 1969. He married one of his classmates. He played clarinet in his school band and wrote his first orchestrations for the the band to play at halftime for their football games. He did not attend college and stated, "I just wanted to be a musician".[3] He began playing keyboards and played in local bands. He had some early success with Wayland friends in a country-rock band called The Rowan Brothers, who opened for The Grateful Dead
Broadway
Elliott along with two other collaborators, won a Tony Award got his orchestration of the Broadway musical, An American in Paris. When Elliott came onto the project, the production had already been performed in Paris for four months. They wanted someone to come into the project who could change the music for its Broadway debut, so they hired Elliott. He said, "I felt like I was hire to put the 'American' in An American in Paris."[1] In this process, the show is fine-tuned based on what the director feel the audience responds to; for example a change in a dance routine requires that the music for that dance be re-written.
- ^ a b Ashton, Emily (July 15, 2015). "Professor Bill Elliott Wins Tony Award for Hit Broadway Musical". berklee.edu. Berklee College of Music. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ Stewart, Zan (June 30, 1995). "MUSIC : Getting Into the '30s Swing : Bill Elliott". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ Olesin, Nancy (October 18, 2016). "'An American in Paris' features arrangements by Holliston's Bill Elliott". milforddailynews.com. GateHouse Media. Retrieved 1 January 2017.