Brother of a Bap­tist min­is­ter, Bark­er em­i­grat­ed from Eng­land to Ca­na­da in the 1940’s, where he grad­u­at­ed from the Roy­al Con­ser­va­to­ry of Mu­sic of To­ron­to. Dur­ing World War II, he di­rect­ed the Gen­er­al Mo­tors Chor­us. He al­so owned stock in the Ham­mond or­gan com­pany and scrounged Ham­mond tone ca­bi­nets from lo­cal Ham­mond deal­er­ships, and placed them in the De­troit Tigers base­ball sta­di­­um. About the same time, his name and bi­o­graphy ap­peared in Who’s Who in the Mid­west. He eventually became an Amer­i­can ci­ti­zen, and taught pi­a­no at the De­troit In­sti­tute of Mu­sical Arts, and was ac­tive in di­rect­ing choirs (in­clud­ing one of over 300 mem­bers at Cen­tral Meth­od­ist Church in Lan­sing, Mi­chi­gan), and had a broad­cast of or­gan clas­sics on WKAR ra­dio out of Mi­chi­gan State Un­i­ver­si­ty.

Music

1. Prince of Peace