Brass Ensemble,Brass Quintet Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1507563 Composed by Parker Handel. Arranged by Chaulk & Peet du Toit. Sacred. 8 pages. Peet du Toit #1082956. Published by Peet du Toit (A0.1507563). Handel Parker (29.1.1854 - 30.1.1928) was the son of Abraham and Martha Parker. They loved music and therefore named most of their children after famous composers. They lived in the hamlet of Marsh and Handel was playing the flute at the age of seven in the Drum & Fife Band in Oxenhope (near Keighley). He left school at age 13 to work in a textile mill.At age 14, he commenced being organist of the Oxenhope Baptist parish in 1868. Around age 20 he became a professional musician, teaching flute, violin and trombone.  He gave organ recitals and also conducted many choirs and brass bands (e.g the Haworth Band for 50 years). Parker was choirmaster and organist of the cathedral in Nassau, Bahamas.