C. William Harwood

C. William Harwood (March 14, 1948 – April 26, 1984 He then served as director of the Houston Grand Opera's touring arm, the Texas Opera Theater, for two years; while simultaneously working as the associate conductor of the Houston Symphony. He notably led the HGO's groundbreaking 1977 production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. He later conducted performances of that opera at Radio City Music Hall in 1982.

In 1979 Harwood conducted the world premiere of Stephen Paulus' A Village Singer at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL). In 1981 he made his New York City conducting debut leading a concert by the American Symphony Orchestra, and that same year won the Leopold Stokowski Memorial Conducting Award. In June 1983 he conducted the world premiere of Frederick Delius's Margot la Rouge at the OTSL.

Harwood died of viral pneumonia at the age of 36 in Little Rock, Arkansas.