Parker was born to mu­sic­al par­ents who named most of their child­ren af­ter com­pos­ers. By age sev­en, he was play­ing flute in the Drum and Fife Band in Ox­en­hope (near Keigh­ley), and at 14 be­gan play­ing the par­ish church’s org­an. He left school at age 13 to work in a tex­tile mill, and around age 20 be­came a pro­fess­ion­al mu­si­cian. He taught flute, vi­o­lin, and trom­bone, played and con­duct­ed brass bands in West York­shire, gave or­gan re­cit­als and con­duct­ed choirs. For a while, he was or­gan­ist and choir­mas­ter at the ca­thed­ral in Nas­sau, Ba­ham­as.

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