About this artist
Archibald Clyde Roller was an American music professor, conductor, and oboist.
Roller, a native of Rogersville, Missouri, received his musical education at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1941.
Roller was the principal oboist with several orchestras: the Oklahoma City Symphony from 1937 to 1939, the Birmingham Symphony from 1940 to 1942, and the Tulsa Philharmonic.
He conducted Dallas's Southern Methodist University Orchestra from 1947 to 1948, and from 1948 to 1962 was music director of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. He also guest conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra: Roller and Arthur Fiedler swapped conducting roles on occasion as well, with Fiedler leading the Amarillo Symphony and Roller conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Returning to Eastman in 1963, he was ensembles professor at Eastman. For Mercury Records in 1963, he conducted the Eastman Wind Ensemble in Vittorio Giannini's Symphony No. 3 and Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 4. Roller served in similar positions at the University of Houston, University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Michigan.