Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ray Lynch" in English language version.
Now at 45, Lynch became hooked on music early. 'I remember being very moved, at the age of 3 or 4, by some of the music I heard in church, and later by music from the movies. Also, I was influenced by my mother, who was a good amateur pianist.'
at age 12, however, he took up classical guitar. He studied under guitarist Eduardo Sainz de la Maza in Barcelona in the early 1960s, and later attended the University of Texas in Austin to study composition.
In '67, Lynch was invited to become lutenist with the Renaissance Quartet in New York. He spent seven years performing with the Quartet and other groups, building a name within the Big Apple's "Early Music" scene. In the mid-'70s, he left it all behind to move to California and reexamine his goals, working as a carpenter and as an industrial purchasing agent while continuing to hone his compositional skills.
The management continues as well to present the Festival Winds; tenor Hugues Cuenod; soprano Jean Hakes; Raymond Lynch, lute; and Albert Fuller, harpsichord.
Purchasing a 125-acre farm in Maine, Lynch concurrently toured the country giving virtuoso solo performances...
By 1980, the synthesizer age was developing, and Lynch began experimenting with an Arp model he bought with 'borrowed money'.
Still, Lunch is uncertain about where his music belongs. 'I would say that 'classical' would be the best category for me,' he says with some reservation. 'It's just that I'm not dead, and I'm not a contemporary experimenter who can be easily labeled. I don't really mind the 'new age' label, but I don't like being grouped with music that I feel is, in general, pretty mediocre and boring.'
Ray Lynch, a classically trained composer and synthesist, is a follower of Da Love-Ananda...'the spiritual worth of any given piece has to be judged subjectively by the listener, not the composer,' says Lynch, 44.
...try anything by Stephen Halpern or Ray Lynch (who is, coincidentally, the son and brother of lawyers) or Kay Gardner's "Rainbow Path."
Ray Lynch, who with his 1984 album "Deep Breakfast" practically defined New Age music, is now saying, no, he is not a New Age composer.
After considering other options at college, Lynch decided to become a professional musician. Composition could not provide a viable living, he decided, so in 1967, he accepted an invitation to play the lute with the Renaissance Quartet, based in New York.
Eventually, he moved to Maine, and it was there he had the spiritual crisis that took him West.
All in all, it's been quite a turnaround for a man who moved across country in the mid-'70s resigned to a change of career. 'I thought the music was over,' said Lynch, who had been playing in a group that performed medieval and Elizabethan music in New York and New England. 'I was just ready to lead an ordinary life and be a carpenter.'
A 'spiritual and personal crisis' in which he felt he was at a dead end led Lynch to the West Coast. Once there, he studied the work of American spiritual teacher and author Love-Ananda (also known as Dafree John), and eventually Love-Ananda suggested that Lynch return to music.
Many of the titles on Deep Breakfast and No Blue Thing come from The Mummery, Love-Ananda's unpublished novel. Lynch said the novel is about "the transcendence of the ego," and it may be published this year. [...] Despite the references to Love-Ananda's book, Lynch said he's not trying to promote a particular philosophy through the music.
The Renaissance Quartet (Raymond Lynch, lute; Barbara Mueser, viola de gamba, Morris Newman, recorder, and Jean Hakes, soprano, substituting for Robert White, tenor) also played and sang like angels.
Last night at the Smithsonian tenor Hughes Cuenod and lutenist Raymond Lynch collaborated on a program of early music. None of it was written after 1640.
Born 3 July 1943 in Salt Lake City...'With my wife and kid I moved to Barcelona, Spain to study with a very good teacher, Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, for 3 years.'
Lynch doesn't cozy to the new age tag, but we're stumped for what else to call his witty, electronic keyboard classicisms.
The Marin County, Calif., resident initially released "Deep Breakfast" on his own label, Ray Lynch Productions, "shipping out of my living room, until Music West took over two years ago." In fact, says Lynch, Music West president Allen Kaplan 'started the company based on discussions with me. Now they have about half a dozen different artists.'
Since then, Ray has been played on over 3,000 radio stations around the world. He has been on "Good Morning America," Spanish television, National Public Radio programming, and played on many international radio stations around the world.
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