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- Firedove - English organist Anna Lapwood's new album was recorded in a Norwegian cathedral
- Music on the Front Line - Peter King discusses the special place that music has for journalists at the sharp end of conflict zones
- A Worthy Captain - Peter King marks BBC presenter Petroc Trelawny's move from dawn to twilight
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- Spotlight. Enchantingly Luminous - Gerald Fenech strongly recommends Raphaël Pichon's new recording of J S Bach's B minor Mass
American administrator, composer, conductor, editor, pianist, teacher and writer John J Becker was born in Henderson, Kentucky on 22 January 1886. He studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory and then at the Wisconsin Conservatory in Milwaukee.
A devout Catholic, he taught at Notre Dame University for ten years and then at the College of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. Later he administered Minnesota's Federal Music Project and was associate editor of the New Music Quarterly.
John J Becker died in Wilmette, Illinois on 21 January 1961, aged nearly seventy-five.
Echoes of Oblivion by Robert McCarney - Turn that racket down!