Arland D. Williams - STORM1141 | Music

#1141 in 3:33 for Grade 3 Band of the 3rd Millennium™ by © Stephen Melillo IGNA 4 October 2016, 2nd & 3rd Millennium
Commissioned by the 2016-2017 Midlakes Middle School Band Clifton Springs, NY
Joe Godfrey, Director

In keeping with STORMQuest and “Wish to the World,” here is yet another work inspired by and dedicated to a hero. Arland Dean Williams Jr. was a passenger aboard Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed on take-off into the Potomac in Washington, D.C., on 13 January 1982, killing 78 people. One of six people to initially survive the crash, Arland helped five others before drowning. A clergyman later said, “His heroism was not rash. Aware that his own strength was fading, he deliberately handed hope to someone else, and he did so repeatedly. On that cold and tragic day, Arland D. Williams Jr. exemplified one of the best attributes of human nature, specifically that some people are capable of doing anything for total strangers.”

Godspeed!
Stephen Melillo