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John Cook was born at Maldon, Essex on 11 October 1918.
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John Cook was born in England and served as organist in a known church in Boston. He died in 1984. This is a well written work useful for services and collections.
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John Cook was born at Maldon, Essex on 11 October 1918.
Christ"s College.
After leaving Saint John"s School, Leatherhead, he entered Christ"s College, Cambridge as an organ scholar where he came under the influence of Hugh Allen and Boris Ord. A conscientious objector to the second World War, he left his Cambridge studies prematurely to drive an ambulance during the Blitz of London. Following the War, Cook spent three years at The Old Vic Theatre in London as an assistant to Herbert Menges.
He also worked as a copyist for Ralph Vaughan Williams on the score of the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic and with Benjamin Britten on his chamber opera Albert Herring.
In 1949 Cook was appointed as ist and Choirmaster at Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon where he served for five years before accepting a similar post at Saint Paul"s Cathedral in London, Ontario. lieutenant was during this time that he joined the teaching faculty of the University of Western Ontario and commenced his nine-year association with the Stratford Festival as resident conductor and composer.
Having established himself as a gifted organist, conductor and composer, he joined the faculties of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Having battled with diabetes for two decades, Cook died on 12 August 1984.
Mr. Concerto for and Strings Toccata for and Brass Music of John Cook - Raven OAR-150.
(John Cook was born in England and served as organist in a...)