- Ray Loring
Charles Raymond Loring II 1943-2008, known professionally as Ray Loring, was a freelance composer and college professor in Massachusetts.
He graduated from Perley High School in his home town of
Georgetown, MA . He studied piano with Fred Noonan, the White House pianist toFranklin Roosevelt andHarry Truman . He studied atYale University atTimothy Dwight College , particularly with the late Edmund Morgan. He was a member of Scroll and Key.During his senior year he was granted the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and used it for his graduate studies at Brandeis University Graduate School of Music, studying under Seymour Shifrin,
Arthur Berger andHarold Shapero .He did scores, as early as 1971 with the film "Ruby," as well as commissions for
NOVA and theHistory Channel .Loring taught at
Endicott College circa 1980-1992 and went into freelance composing full time until 2007 when he was accepted into the music faculty atGordon College from 2007-8In his leisure he enjoyed hiking with friends and completed the New Hampshire 48 and the New England 67, both high accomplishments regarded in the hiking world.
Commissions and scores
"Nova" (music theme) (53 episodes, 1997-2007) (composer: theme music) (2 episodes, 2006)
* Pocahontas Revealed (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* Saved by the Sun (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* Kings of Camouflage (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* First Flower (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* The Last Great Ape (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* (50 more)"Nova ScienceNow" (music theme) (39 episodes, 2005-2007)
* Aging (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* Maya (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* Profile: Bonnie Bassler (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* Space Elevator (2007) TV episode (music theme)
* 1918 Flu (2006) TV episode (music theme)
* (34 more)"Why the Towers Fell" (2002) (TV) (composer: additional music)
Composer:
"Nova" (9 episodes, 1998-2006)
* The Deadliest Plane Crash (2006) TV episode
* Saving the National Treasures (2005) TV episode
* Descent Into the Ice (2004) TV episode
* Dogs and More Dogs (2004) TV episode
* Dirty Bomb (2003) TV episode
* (4 more)Einstein Revealed (1996) (TV)
* "Secrets of Lost Empires II" (1996) TV series (unknown episodes)
* Ruby (1971)References
[http://www.essexchambermusicplayers.org/players.html#MichaelFinegold]
[http://imdb.com/name/nm0521019/]
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