Barry Gray studied composition under the Hungarian born emigre composer Matyas Seiber.
10 Facts About Barry Gray
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In 1956 Barry Gray joined Gerry Anderson's AP Films and scored its first marionette puppet television series, The Adventures of Twizzle.
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Additionally, Barry Gray is known as the composer for the Anderson live-action series of the 1970s, such as UFO and Space: 1999.
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In 1970, Barry Gray moved from Esher to St Peter Port, Guernsey.
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Barry Gray died in hospital on Guernsey on 26 April 1984.
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Barry Gray's music is characterised by the use of brass and percussion sections.
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The ensembles required for Barry Gray's scoring in series such as Thunderbirds and Stingray dwarfed those used in the production of most contemporary television programmes; even the orchestra employed for the first Anderson-produced series to carry the "Supermarionation" label, Supercar, comprised some forty instrumentalists.
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Besides composing and conducting orchestral scores for television and film, Barry Gray developed an interest in the ondes Martenot, which he used to produce unconventional musical notes as well as electronic sound effects in several of his scores, including those for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Doppelganger.
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Barry Gray believed that the score for the live action Doppelganger was his best.
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Archer and Hearn describe this piece as "one of the most enchanting" ever written by Barry Gray, adding that the soundtrack as a whole evokes a "traditional Hollywood feel" in contrast with the film's future setting.