DISCUSSION: What is a work? John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about The performing artist as co-creator, including contributions from Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Béla Hartmann, David Arditti and Stephen Francis Vasta.
RESOUNDING ECHOES: Beginning in 2022, Robert McCarney's occasional series features little-known twentieth century classical composers.
DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Music and the Visual World, including contributions from Celia Craig, Halida Dinova and Yekaterina Lebedeva.
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!