"I try to think of the feeling I'm trying to communicate, rather than the actual musical notes," he explained. When Bestor writes or arranges music, he thinks visually, trying to paint pictures and evoke emotions through the notes. So when I write, I always pray to make sure that I don't abuse that power." I want to use the power of music to lift people. "Music is so powerful in what it can do," Bestor noted. Two of those albums, Joyspring and Joyspring II, are what Bestor calls "LDS music," although he points out that he tries to follow the Spirit when working on any of his many projects. In addition, Bestor has written and arranged three albums of his own compositions. Some of the credits he's racked up include creation and production of themes for several ABC sports programs, promo music for some network series, and an Emmy for more than three hours of music written with writing partner and fellow BYU alumni Sam Cardon for ABC's coverage of the 1988 Winter Olympics. In between composing for films, Bestor keeps busy writing and arranging music for other projects. He is currently scoring a feature-length film for Disney titled The Witching of Ben Wagner. He already has film scores for several movies tucked under his belt, including four Disney Channel children's films BYU's latest motion picture, A More Perfect Union and several made-for-television movies. "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. 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.
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