Buryl red biography

          Buryl Red '61MM, a conductor, producer, and arranger known world-wide as the musical director of The Century Men and composer of the classic Celebrate.!

          The Founder

          FOUNDING MUSICAL DIRECTOR – CONDUCTOR BURYL RED, 1969-2013

          Buryl Red, noted composer, arranger and producer.

          Buryl Red, as a composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator and producer, has participated in literally thousands of projects, many of them award-winning.

        1. Buryl Red, as a composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator and producer, has participated in literally thousands of projects, many of them award-winning.
        2. Red was the founding musical director and conductor of The CenturyMen, a men's choir made up of Baptist church music directors from around the world.
        3. Buryl Red '61MM, a conductor, producer, and arranger known world-wide as the musical director of The Century Men and composer of the classic Celebrate.
        4. A graduate of Baylor and Yale universities and born in Little Rock, Ark., Red, 77, wrote more than 1, published compositions and arrangements.
        5. Composer, conductor, producer, and arranger.

          6. His work, described by the Washington Post as “uncommonly creative,” has been heard in such widely diverse places as Carnegie Hall, Saturday Night Live, thousands of churches, schools and theaters (including Broadway and Radio City Music Hall) around the world.

          His output includes more than 2,500 published compositions and arrangements, production of over 4,000 CD’s, author/editor of more than 50 college/school music textbooks, and the musical supervision, composition, and/or arranging for several hundred shows, documentaries, and music specials, many of them award winning, for network and cable television.

          Several of his choral works including Celebrate Life (with lyrics by Ragan Courtney), It’s Cool in the Furnace (with lyrics by Grace Hawthorne) and the first performing edition of the Pergolesi Magnificat (with Virginia Red) are considered l