About William F. Rayer
This is William F. Rayer’s first novel. He wrote it over several decades while making a living as a music director for the Mayfield City Schools of Cleveland, Ohio. His interests include music composition and music performance. He is an avid reader of science fiction. He has written the symphonic poem in four movements called also The Reach Beyond Tomorrow. He is a member of the Cleveland Composers Guild and has had compositions performed through the auspices of that organization. He resides now in Lorain, Ohio. He enjoys golf, flight simulation, and nature walks with his wife Terri.
Bio for William F. Rayer
William F. Rayer is a retired music teacher having taught music for 28 years in the Mayfield City School System. His undergraduate degree is a B.A. in Music Education from Kent State University. He has a Master of Arts degree in Music Composition from Cleveland State University where he studied music composition from Bain Murray and Rudy Bubalo. He was a member of the Cleveland Composer’s Guild From 1974 to 1980 but became inactive to raise a family. He re-activated his membership to the Cleveland Composer’s Guild in June of 2008. He has written many compositions which have been performed by area orchestras and bands including the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Lakeland Civic Band, Lakeland Civic Orchestra as well as local high schools and junior high schools. In the spring of 2007 the Lakeland Civic Orchestra premiered his work “Pluto, Requiem For A Dead Planet” which was inspired by a Newsweek article of the same name. He performs regularly as the principle trumpet of the Lorain Community Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Robert Beckstrom. In the past, he has performed with the Lakeland Jazz Band, Lakeland Concert Band, and the Lakeland Civic Orchestra. He performs solo and duo acts of popular music at area nursing homes and plays in the Broadale Brass Sextet led by John Simna. He has completed a novel with an accompanying compact disc of original music written by him for the novel called The Reach Beyond Tomorrow which is currently in the hands of the Two Harbors Publishing Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is in the process of completing his second novel, The Legacy of Pnomos, which is a sequel to The Reach Beyond Tomorrow.