Francis Judd Cooke
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| Born | December 28, 1910 |
| Died | May 18, 1995 (aged 84) |
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Francis Judd Cooke (December 28, 1910 – May 18, 1995) was an American
Life
Cooke was born December 28, 1910, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a family of New England missionaries turned cattle ranchers. He was the great grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, the first doctor to reside in Hawaii, and grandson of Albert Francis Judd, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. His mother was Sophie Boyd Judd, and father was George Paul Cooke, grandson of Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke, founders of the Royal School of Hawaii.[1]
Cooke began composing at an early age and his first serious pieces date from age 14. He received a B.A. in music from
In 1939 Cooke began teaching at the
He also taught at Yale University in 1959–1960 and at Wellesley College from 1973 to 1979.
A prolific composer, Cooke wrote a great number of choral and orchestral works, as well as chamber works. One CD of his music, entitled The Warsaw Recordings
In 1974 he completed a music textbook entitled Sixteenth-Century Vocal Polyphony. In the same year he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from the New England Conservatory.
Cooke suffered a stroke in 1981, hampering his organ playing and choir directing, and he turned to composing full-time during the last 14 years of his life. On May 18, 1995, at the age of 84, he died in his sleep at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he had lived for 51 years. He had completed that morning an arrangement for wind quintet of some music from Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens (titled "Dolce assai" after Berlioz's expressive marking), which was performed at his memorial service the following week at Lexington's First Parish Church (Unitarian), where he had served as organist and choirmaster from 1955 to 1981.[4] Cooke, who greatly enjoyed poetry, used to sum up his own life with a favorite couplet from the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali:
- "It was my part at the feast to play upon my instrument
- And I have done all I could[4]
Rice-Cooke family tree
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Works
- Review of Modal Counterpoint in the Style of the Sixteenth Century by Ernst Krenek. Journal of Music Theory, vol. 4, no. 1 (April 1960), pp. 112–116.
References
- ^ George R. Carter; Mary H. Hopkins, eds. (July 1922). A record of the descendants of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd of Hawaii, March 8, 1829, to April 16, 1922. Hawaiian Historical Society.
- ^ "SIXTY ARE HONORED AT YALE TAP DAY: More Than 20 Juniors From the Metropolitan Area Are Elected to Four University Societies. MANY ATHLETES IN LIST J.M. McGanley of New York City Had Distinction of Being Tapped Last for Skull and Bones". The New York Times. 13 May 1932. p. 4.
- ^ "Francis Judd Cooke: The Warsaw Recordings". AllMusic. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
- ^ a b "Francis Judd Cooke obituary" (PDF). Music for the love of it. June 1995. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
- ^ "Finding Aid to the Rice Family papers, 1838-1964" (PDF). Kauai Historical Society.
- ^ "Cooke Family History and Kūaliʻi • Manoa Heritage Center". Manoa Heritage Center. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
External links
- Francis Judd Cooke biography at the Wayback Machine (archived October 25, 2007)
- The Warsaw Recordings CD
- Descendants of Thomas Hastings website
- Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook
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