Ted Nichols

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

Nichols attended John R. Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington. He then joined the US Navy and played the saxophone, clarinet and violin in a swing band. 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 Air Force's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and founded the Air Force Bandsmen Training School at Sampson Air Force Base in New York . a. Musicians from the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music won.

After serving in the military, Nichols founded the Corpus Christi Youth Symphony , taught at schools in the city, and earned a master's degree from Texas A&I University . In the 1950s he joined Hanna-Barbera Productions as a composer , where he composed 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 .

In addition, he worked from 1958 to 1960 as a band director at Santa Ana College and at California State University (1960 to 1972). From 1975 to 1984 he was Professor of Music and Head of the Music Department at the Western Conservative Baptist Seminary . As a church musician he was u. a. at the Church of the Open Door (1960 to 1972) and at the Campus Crusade for Christ International (1972 to 1975).

Web links

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