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Obituary for William Blunt Millholland, The Times Herald (MI) June 12, 1965

SARINA - William Blunt Millholland, 66, of 215 Vidal Steet North, a past commodore of the Sarina Yacht Club and chairman of the board of Holmes Foundry, Ltd., died early today in Sarina General Hospital.

Mr. Millholland also was a member of the St. George’s Anglican Church. He was a charter member of the Sarina Yacht Club, a member of the Sarina Riding Club, and of the Sarina Golf and Curling Club.

Mr. Millholland is survived by his widow, A. Hope Harris Millholland; a daughter, Mrs. William Sydeman, Hastings, NY; two sons, Arthur S, Millholland and William B. Millholland, both of Sarina; a sister, Mrs. Newton Parker, Washington, DC; a brother, Paul Millholland New York City, and 10 grandchildren.

Services will be from the Stewart Funeral Home, Sarina, to St. George’s Anglican Church Monday at 2 p.m. Venerable Archdeacon Alford Abraham will officiate. Interment is private.

Obituary for William Jay Sydeman, Find a Grave

William Jay Sydeman, American composer, 93, died in his sleep on May 27, 2021. Jay lived at TheWoods, a private community near Mendocino,California. He taught composition at the Manne School of Music Conservatory in New York from 1960 to 1970. The New York Times once wrote, "The season has begun there is a premier by William Sydeman..." and called him the most played composer of his generation. Sydeman was selected by Erich Leinsdorf to write "In Memoriam John F. Kennedy", performed by the Boston Symphony in Boston, New York,and Washington, D.C. He was awarded the Boston Symphony's Award of Merit and scholarships to Tangle wood.

Sydeman wrote contemporary music, pushing the envelope of the Avant Garde. He was not a devotee of any single school of music but used the tonal and harmonic resources opened up by Schoenberg, Bartok, Stravinsky and one of his teachers, Roger Sessions, with freedom and individuality. As oneof the composers selected for a commission for the dedication of Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, his piece, Malediction, a "black comedy" spoofon the excommunication curse from "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," a satiric 18th century comic novel by Laurence Sterne enjoying a revival at the time, nearly caused a riot. Sydeman said, "I know how Stravinsky felt at the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."

In 1981 Sydeman taught at Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California, where he wrote much of his choral music. There he set to music Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. Sydeman lived in Nevada City, California, from 1988 to 2007, and there he helped organize a composers group, the Nevada County Composers Cooperative. They started a mentoring program for young composers, which is still active today.

In Mendocino Jay played piano for a weekly lunch program at the Mendocino Presbyterian Church and gave performances and talks at the Mendocino Art Center. He played with a jazz group and played classical music with friends at the Woods. He had a radio program on local station KZYX called "The Mind of the Composer" until he retired in 2018.

Jay is published by Edition Peters, E. C. Schirmer, Associated Music, Subito Music, and others. Many of his works are available on International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). Jay always believe the best memorial to him would be to listen to his music. Tributes and stories can be left at https://www .forevermissed.com/jaysydeman/about.

Jay is survived by his daughters, Ann Sydeman (Henry Moreton), Michelle Sydeman, son William Sydeman (Catherine Madonia), granddaughters, Emily and Julia Moreton and Claire and Marie Sydeman, and close friend and caregiver, Jeanne Duncan.