What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
Television, Multimedia, Choir, Small Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles, Other
What is your favorite genre or style of music?
most everything if its good!
Is music your main income source?
Sort Of - Music Related
About Me (Must include at least one paragraph of biographical information about you as a composer) - blank or minimal answers on this line will cause your request to be rejected. Include a link to your website if you have one.
In brief I have been a musician since childhood, play several instruments, have taught music for 3 decades, studied composition for 12 years with a master composer from major symphony and have written a modest amount of music for several idioms. I've had a career in television production and am just lately returning to composition after several years break.
Comments
I enjoyed the variety of your music. Thanks a bunch!
P.S. I also wanted to thank you for your explanation of the significance of the individual pieces from "Memoir." I am sure hearing the work in its fully complexity-- various parts from different angles, in the context of an exhibition-- is a wonderful experience (perhaps a bit like seeing/hearing the early public audio-visual work of Edgar Varése).
Hello Bentrup Gray,
It's fortuitous that you just left a welcome message on my page. I was thinking of leaving you a message just yesterday after I heard parts of your Memoir. (I don't recall how I stumbled onto your page). I started with the violin and synth, then listened to the 02 War Years, and ended with Memoir 01 Voice. They were all superb, I thought. I most enjoyed War Years and Voice. The mix in War Years of Buddhist chanting, marching, German and Italian oratory, sirens, crowds yelling slogans and operatic aria was most effective and moving. I listened to that several times. The voice in 01 was most plaintive. I heard that one twice. I am impressed with the work. What was the question you had for me, though? Something about the profile page. "Meaning?" The page has just been started, and I am learning how to set it up. I am sure what you want to the know the meaning of.
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