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Franz Xaver Gruber

1787 - 1863 Person Name: Franz X. Gruber, 1787-1863 Hymnal Number: 108 Composer of "STILLE NACHT" in Singing Our Faith Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) was born into a linen weaver's family and studied violin and organ even though his father wanted him to work in the family business. In addition to serving as parish organist for St. Nicholas Church in Obendorf, he taught school in nearby Arnsdorf (1807-1829) and Berndorf (1829-1833). He spent the balance of his career as organist and choir director in Hallein, where he founded the famous Hallein Choral Society. Bert Polman

Suzanne Toolan

b. 1927 Person Name: Suzanne Toolan, SM. b. 1927 Hymnal Number: 235 Author of "I Am the Bread of Life (Yo Soy el Pan de Vida)" in Singing Our Faith

James E. Moore

b. 1951 Person Name: James E. Moore, Jr., b. 1951 Hymnal Number: 243 Author of "Taste and See" in Singing Our Faith

Bob Hurd

b. 1950 Person Name: Bob Hurd, b. 1950 Hymnal Number: 236 Author of "Pan de Vida" in Singing Our Faith

Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Shaw, 1875-1958 Hymnal Number: 156 Adapter of "ROYAL OAK" in Singing Our Faith Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

Kathleen Thomerson

b. 1934 Person Name: Kathleen Thomerson, b. 1934 Hymnal Number: 255 Author of "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light" in Singing Our Faith Kathleen Thomerson is Organist and Music Director at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Mississippi, California, and Texas. College music study was at the Universities of Colorado and Texas, the Flemish Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, and privately in Paris. Before retirement in Austin, she lived in Collinsville, Illinois, when her husband was a biology professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Her best-known hymn text is "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light," set to her hymn tune HOUSTON. --www.morningstarmusic.com

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles H. Webb Hymnal Number: 60 Transcriber of "[Heleluyan, heleluyan]" in Singing Our Faith

Charles R. Anders

b. 1929 Person Name: Charles Anders, b. 1929 Hymnal Number: 234 Harmonizer of "HOLY MANNA" in Singing Our Faith

M. R. Newbolt

1874 - 1956 Person Name: Michael R. Newbolt, 1874-1956 Hymnal Number: 259 Author of "Lift High the Cross" in Singing Our Faith Michael R. Newbolt (b. Dymock, Gloucestershire, England, 1874; d. Bierton, Buckinghamshire, England, 1956) was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, and ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1900. He ministered at several churches during the early part of his career and then became principal of the Missionary College in Dorchester (1910-1916). From 1916 to 1927 he served St. Michael and All Angels Church in Brighton and from 1927 to 1946 was canon of Chester Cathedral. Newbolt wrote several theological works, including a commentary on the Book of Revelation. Bert Polman

J. Freeman Young

1820 - 1885 Person Name: John F. Young, 1820-1885 Hymnal Number: 108 Translator of "Silent Night, Holy Night" in Singing Our Faith John Freeman Young (1820-1885) Born: October 30, 1820, Pittston, Maine. Died: November 15, 1885, New York City. Buried: Old City Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida. Young attended Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Wesleyan Seminary, Readfield, Maine; and the Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia. Ordained a Protestant Episcopal minister, he served in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and New York, and became the second bishop of Florida in 1867. His works include: Carols for Christmas Tide (New York: Daniel Dana, Jr., 1859) Hymns and Music for the Young, 1860-61 Great Hymns of the Church (editor; published posthumously in 1887 by John H. Hopkins) --www.hymntime.com/tch