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John Reeves


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in Merritt, British Columbia, Canada
December 01, 1926

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John Michael Reeves. Composer, broadcaster, author, b Merritt, BC, 1 Dec 1926; BA classics (Cambridge) 1948. Educated in England, he began conducting Gregorian chant and renaissance polyphony as a teenager and won a choral scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge. Returning to Canada after graduation he taught classics at the University of British Columbia, then joined CBC radio as a music producer in 1952, branching out later into productions of dramas, documentaries, and religious programs. He retired from the CBC staff in 1987, but has continued to produce programs on a freelance basis.

Reeves has written extensively on music, particularly in broadcast scripts such as 'A London Trio' (1966) about Handel and Bach, and the 'St Matthew Tr
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Average rating: 3.63 · 52 ratings · 10 reviews · 180 distinct works
The Rothschilds: the financ...

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The Lone Flag: Memoir of th...

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Murder Before Matins

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The St. Matthew Passion: A ...

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Death In Prague

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Murder by microphone

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West Monkton Then and Now: ...

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Murder With Muskets

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“In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry.”
John Reeves, The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon

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