Who founded the academy where John Baker was educated?
Edward Fisher
Title: The Royal Conservatory of Music
Passage: The Royal Conservatory of Music, branded as The Royal Conservatory, is a music education business and performance venue headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1886 by Edward Fisher as The Toronto Conservatory of Music. In 1947, King George VI incorporated the organization through royal charter.
Title: Arena Football League
Passage: After 12 years as commissioner of the AFL, David Baker retired unexpectedly on July 25, 2008, just two days before ArenaBowl XXII; deputy commissioner Ed Policy was named interim commissioner until Baker's replacement was found. Baker explained, "When I took over as commissioner, I thought it would be for one year. It turned into 12. But now it's time."
Title: John Baker (Radiophonic musician)
Passage: He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied piano and composition. In 1960 he joined the BBC as a sound mixer, before transferring, in 1963, to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where he remained until 1974. He was the most prolific of the early Workshop composers, developing a trademark style, creating music by manipulating tapes of everyday sounds such as blowing across the top of an empty bottle. A rare snippet of Baker at work was included in the 1968 documentary film "Music", which also featured the Beatles working on "Hey Jude" in the studio. A jazz pianist, he brought a sense of rhythm to the Workshop which some of the other more mathematical composers lacked. His work included many signature tunes for BBC television and radio. He was also particularly interested in combining recorded electronic music with live musicians.
Title: Education Finance and Policy
Passage: Education Finance and Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal addressing public policy developments affecting educational institutions. Topics covered by the journal include school accountability, education standards, teacher compensation, instructional policy, higher education productivity and finance, and special education. "Education Finance and Policy" was founded in 2005 and is published online and in hard copy by the MIT Press and the American Education Finance Association. It is also indexed with EconLit.
Title: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You
Passage: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You is an album by jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. It follows a formula similar to two other Baker albums, "Chet Baker Sings" (1954) and "Chet Baker Sings and Plays with Bud Shank, Russ Freeman & Strings" (recorded in 1955, released in 1964) in which he updates existing standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion. Unlike the aforementioned records, on "It Could Happen to You", on a few tracks, Baker plays no trumpet whatsoever, opting to scat in place of an instrumental solo.
Title: Boston
Passage: In 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's first governor, John Winthrop, led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history; America's first public school was founded in Boston in 1635. Over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their native allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British North America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid 18th century.
Title: Dawkins Revolution
Passage: The Dawkins Revolution was a series of Australian tertiary education reforms instituted by the then Labor Education Minister (1987–91) John Dawkins.
Title: Monday Night Brewing
Passage: Monday Night Brewing is a craft brewery founded in 2006 by Jonathan Baker, Jeff Heck, and Joel Iverson in Atlanta, Georgia.
Title: Winifred Curtis
Passage: Curtis was born on 15 June 1905 in London, the only child of Herbert John Curtis and Elizabeth Winifred Curtis (née Baker).
Title: Into the Woods (film)
Passage: A baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon the baker's family by a Witch (Meryl Streep) who found the baker's father robbing her garden when his mother was pregnant. Because the baker's father also stole some magic beans, the witch was punished with the curse of ugliness by her own mother. The witch offers to lift the curse but only if the baker and his wife obtain four critical items for her to make a potion: a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, a strand of hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold. The witch later tells the baker that she asked him to do this task for her because she is not allowed to touch any of the objects.
Title: Giving You the Best That I Got (song)
Passage: "Giving You the Best That I Got" is a 1988 song by American R&B recording artist Anita Baker. The song appears on Baker's album of the same name, which was released in the fall of that year. The song was written by Baker, Skip Scarborough and Randy Holland.
Title: Joe Brazil
Passage: Joseph Brazil (August 25, 1927 – August 6, 2008) was an American jazz saxophonist and educator. Local musicians and touring acts performed in his basement. He taught jazz at Garfield High School, co-founded the Black Music curriculum at the University of Washington, and founded the Black Academy of Music in Seattle. He appeared on the albums "Om" by John Coltrane and "Ubiquity" by Roy Ayers.
Title: Fred Kent
Passage: In 1968, Kent founded the Academy for Black and Latin Education (ABLE), a street academy for high school dropouts. He was Program Director for the Mayor's Council on the Environment in New York City under Mayor John Lindsay. In 1970, and again in 1990, Kent was the coordinator and chairman of New York City's Earth Day.
Title: Baker (surname)
Passage: Baker is a Boernician and Anglo - Celtic surname of English and Scottish Borderlands origin but can be found in Ireland as well, mostly amongst the Scots - Irish. An occupational name, which originated in medieval times from the name of the trade, baker. From the Middle English bakere and Old English bæcere, a derivation of bacan, meaning ``to dry by heat. ''The bearer of this name may not only have been a baker of bread. The name was also used for other involved with baking in some way, including the owner of a communal oven in humbler communities,`` baker''. The female form of the name is ``Baxter ''. which is seen more in Scotland.
John Baker (Radiophonic musician) The Royal Conservatory of Music