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About the John Ness Beck Foundation John Ness Beck 19301987 John Ness Beck cofounder of Beckenhorst Press established the John Ness Beck Foundation in 1987 only a few months before he passed away from cancer. The Foundation was established in memory of Randall Thompson and Joseph Clokey and is tax exempt. It recognizes outstanding achievement in choral composition and arrangement of traditional church music enhances and furthers the careers study education and experience of promising composers and arrangers and promotes and stimulates the learning of choral composition and traditional church music. John Becks desire was simple to encourage and promote the writing of traditional sacred music.