"I don't even remember what the movie was, but at the time I determined that I was going to write music for film."Īnd that's what Bestor, a member of the Provo (Utah) Edgemont 1st Ward, does. "I went to a movie one day and, as I was sitting there, it suddenly occurred to me that someone was making money writing music for that film, " he explained. It was also during high school in the mid-1970s that Bestor, now 31, decided to make music his career. "It was so bad, I don't think she's been the same since."Although that first composition may have been terrible by his own admission, Bestor's talents improved as the young student began writing compositions for the Orem (Utah) High School stage band, concert band, and choir. "When I was in the seventh grade, I wrote a song for this girl named Colette," Bestor remembered. Heather Beers is a Salt Lake City-based freelance writer andĬo-owner of Momentum Communications advertising and public relations.It was a crush on a classmate that actually got Kurt Bestor started in his career - a career that has already garnered the young composer an Emmy award, three albums, and several stints scoring music for motion pictures. Good, then we'll expect the sequel to that untitled album in It never really feels like I'm working, anyway," I plan onīeing very productive the rest of my life-there is no retirement in my "As of today, I figure I've lived half my life. Steamroller's Fresh Air Christmas with sweeping album sales.ĭespite the success, at 45, Bestor says he's far from done. It swung wide open afterġ987's A Kurt Bestor Christmas bravely countered Mannheim Lex de Azevedo's Embryo Music took a chance on his first album, "Nobody wants instrumental music." It wasn't until after His first demo reel was rejected he was told While it's been a prolific, profitable journey for Bestor, it And his fifteenth annual ChristmasĬoncert, this month at Abravanel Hall, is a sell-out tradition for local His work with Sam Cardon,Ĭo-composing for ABC's daily coverage of the 1988 Olympic Winter Has brought tears of hope at 9/11 ceremonies, Columbine High School memorials and other commemorations worldwide. His song, "Prayer of the Children," for example, His fans would say the world is a better place for his rose-scentedĬompositions. Still taking care of the bills, I'm definitely stopping to I'm done with my life, I'll be dissatisfied. "But I'veįinally realized that if all I have is a stack of paid bills when Mozart to write," he says, only half-jokingly. When I could find a wealthy like King Leopold who paid for The world sang, into music," says Bestor.īestor says curiosity turned to necessity when he decided to try High, that passion morphed into a curiosity about how to translate what Sounds to me are musical, whether it'sīusy traffic in New York or a serene beach in California. "I've always had a passion for music, ever Putting a musical voice to things is something Bestor has done I just decided to put a musical voice to all of Some of those landmarks are happy, some are prettyĭevastating things. And how does one go about composing one's "This next album, it'll be untitled, an autobiographicalĪlbum," says Bestor. (Bestor confesses he doesn't keep track), he's ready toĬompose the most personal of all his works: the score to his life. He's composed more than 30 film scores and recorded 18 or 19 CDs That's what internationally renowned composer and performer Out, expose style? Sound daunting? Now try putting it to music. Work backward? Should you skip over the ugly spots, or let it all hang Somewhere with your childhood, or would you start with last week and Retrieved from Įver thought about writing your autobiography? Would you begin
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