Arnold Atkinson Cooke (November 4, 1906 - August 13, 2005), was a British composer. November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

He was born at Gomersal, Yorkshire into a family of carpet manufacturers. He was educated at Repton School and at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read History, but he was already attracted to a career in music. In 1929, having taken a second degree in Music, he studied composition and piano at the Berlin Academy for Music under Paul Hindemith. He later became musical director of the Festival Theatre at Cambridge, and in 1933 was appointed a professor at the Royal Manchester College of Music. After military service in the Second World War, he obtained a doctorate from Cambridge and taught at Trinity College of Music in London, retiring in 1978. Repton School, founded in 1557, is a public school in Derbyshire, England. ... Full name Gonville and Caius College Motto - Named after Edmund Gonville & John Caius Previous names Gonville Hall (1348), Gonville & Caius (1557) Established 1348 Sister College Brasenose College Master Neil McKendrick Location Trinity St Undergraduates 468 Graduates 291 Homepage Boatclub Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, generally known as Caius (though pronounced... Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963) was a German classical composer, violist, teacher, theorist and conductor. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Trinity College of Music is not quite one of the UKs top music conservatories but its getting there, today based in Greenwich, London, England. ...