Ted Nichols

Theodore " Ted" Nichols ( born as Theodore Nicholas Sflotsos, born October 2, 1928 in Missoula / Montana) is an American composer, arranger, conductor and music teacher of Greek descent.

Nichols attended the John R. Rogers High School in Spokane / Washington. He then joined the U.S. Navy, where he played in a swing band saxophone, clarinet and violin. Later he founded his own band in Corpus Christi. After the end of his service in the Navy, he studied at Baylor University (Bachelor 1952). During the Korean War he participated in the Reserve Officer Training Corps ( ROTC ) of the Air Force and for which he founded at the Sampson Air Force Base in New York, the Air Force bandsmen Training School, including Won musician of the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music.

After his military service, Nichols founded the Corpus Christi Youth Symphony, taught at schools in the city and obtained a Master degree at Texas A & I University. In the 1950s he came as a composer to the Hanna -Barbera Productions and composed here music for films such as Scooby -Doo, Where Are You!, The Flintstones, Josie and the Pussycats, Shazzan, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Wacky Races and The Man Called Flintstone.

He also worked from 1958 to 1960 as band director at Santa Ana College and California State University ( 1960-1972 ). From 1975 to 1984 he was professor of music and director of the music department at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary. As a church musician he was, inter alia, at the Church of the Open Door ( 1960-72 ) and the Campus Crusade for Christ ( 1972-75 ) active.

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• Alliance Publications - N - Nichols, Ted
• Ted Nichols at the Internet Movie Database (English)

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• Born in 1928
• American composer
• Music teacher