About Me

Composer

About Me – So much about me is wrapped up in music. Since I was but a child, music has played a key and vital role, comforting me, lifting me, inspiring me and soothing my soul! You can read a more extended biography about me on the bio page of my official website at – StringTunes or at my official blog. Please, do stop by if you are so inclined. I’d love to have you over for a spin through a collection of my “tunes”. Again, I hope you have found value in visiting me here at my blog.

Playing the Classical Guitar has been an important part in both learning about music in general and in setting the stage for learning music composition. On the personal side it has been a journey of intense pleasure, intense pain and just about everything else in between. Like most serious guitarist, my guitar has been and continues to be my best friend, my confidante, my partner, truly an extension of myself. Mostly, it has given me a way to express myself through the creative and performing arts.

Composing music has become a way of life for me now. Constantly learning by listening to the classics as written through the ages by the most incredible of Composers as well as studying the notation transcripts for these works. Going to concerts fills me with joy and by doing these acts, music reaches into the depths of my soul and somehow connects me to the creative energy enabling me to compose my own original music.

As I continue to develop and evolve musically, it is my hope that maybe one day, I will be recognized as a Composer of good, maybe even great, music. In the meantime, I definitely wish to contribute in a grander way and certainly, in a positive way about music. This website and the Internet at large, permits, provides and offers to me an avenue of doing just that. Music remains one of the passions in my life and hopefully this site will ignite and/or promote a passion for music in you!

Finally, I am now somewhat more comfortable in the idea of  sharing my music with others through a Public Forum such as this. I hope you enjoy your perusal of my original works enough to purchase them. By doing so, it will help to finance the costs involved in producing more music and the costs of making them available to you, the listening public. For those that do, thanks, in advance, for supporting my musical efforts and this website. I hope through this effort that you will be encouraged enough so as to cause you to work,  study and to develop your own musical voice and talents.

Having said the above, I hope you enjoy your stay here and I look forward to your comments, thoughts and ideas.

Don

StringTunes – Music to Soothe Your Soul!

Don Rath Jr – Official Blog

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