Buryl Red, was a noted composer, arranger, and producer. 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 landmarks. He was the executive record producer, or consulting producer, for all of the most widely used school music textbooks in the United States including the recent Silver Burdett Ginn Making Music series. He was the Musical Director of The Centurymen, a professional male chorus whose members are themselves choral conductors. Buryl passed away in April 2013.