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Christopher Gower

b. 1939 Person Name: Christopher Gower, 1939- Meter: 9.8.9.8 Composer (descant) of "ST. CLEMENT" in The Book of Praise Christopher Stainton Gower. Organist and chorus master

David Evans

1874 - 1948 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Composer of "ST. SULIEN" David Evans (b. Resolven, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1874; d. Rosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, 1948) was an important leader in Welsh church music. Educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, he received a doctorate in music from Oxford University. His longest professional post was as professor of music at University College in Cardiff (1903-1939), where he organized a large music department. He was also a well-known and respected judge at Welsh hymn-singing festivals and a composer of many orchestral and choral works, anthems, service music, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Timothy T'ingfang Lew

1891 - 1947 Person Name: Timothy Tingfang Lew Meter: 9.8.9.8 Author of "The Bread of Life for All is Broken" in The United Methodist Hymnal T'ingfang Lew was a leading Chinese educator, author, and editor. He was educated in China and at Columbia University in New York City (M.A.; Ph.D.). His Bachelor of Divinity degree was from Yale and he studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, where he also taught Christian education. Lew lectured throughout America at schools and colleges from 1926 to 1938 and received an S.T.D. degree from Oberlin College. In 1932, Lew began to chair the commission to prepare a Chinese Union hymnal. The resulting Hymns of Universal Praise was published in 1936. Its music editor was Bliss Wiant, a colleague of Lews's at Yenching University in Peking. Lew also edited the Union Book of Common Prayer which was used by four Protestant Chinese groups having approximately one-half million members. He represented China at the World Council of Churches meetings (1927-1939). He served as a member of the Chinese government's legislative body (1936-1941). Lew is remembered for his work with Chinese Christian organizations in China and America where he resided from 1941 to 1947. He died while teaching at the University of New Mexico. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

John Wilson

1905 - 1992 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Harmonizer of "RENDEZ À DIEU" in The United Methodist Hymnal

Harry J. Fielding

b. 1946 Person Name: Harry J. Fielding, 1946- Meter: 9.8.9.8 Author of "My Savior said that I should be" in Community of Christ Sings From New Zealand; a member of the Community of Christ.

Emily R. Brink

b. 1940 Person Name: Emily Brink Meter: 9.8.9.8 Harmonizer (alt. harm.) of "SPIRITUS VITAE" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Emily R. Brink is a Senior Research Fellow of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Adjunct Professor of Church Music and Worship at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her main areas of responsibility are conference planning and global resources. She is program manager of the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship, which draws more than 70 presenters and 1600 participants from around the world. She also travels widely to lecture and to learn about worship in different parts of the world, especially in Asia, where she has lectured in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan. Her areas of interest include congregational song from all times and places; psalmody; hymnal editing. She was editor of four hymnals and consults with a wide range of churches on worship renewal issues. Dr. Brink is active in the American Guild of Organists, serving in both local and national offices, as well as in the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (president from 1990 1992) and named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in 2004 in recognition of distinguished services to hymnody and hymnology. --internal.calvinseminary.edu/

Louisa P. Loring

1854 - 1924 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Author of "O Thou Who Turnest into Morning" in The Cyber Hymnal Loring, Louisa Putnam. (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts, compiled Hymns of the Ages, published in 1904. Her literary and musical standards were high, and the book handsomely printed, but its appear was limited and it had to compete with several other excellent hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians. It included her own morning hymn beginning "O Thou who turnest into morning" (1902), also included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Peter Cutts

b. 1937 Person Name: Peter Cutts (1937- ) Meter: 9.8.9.8 Arranger of "DRONFIELD" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

David Ashley White

b. 1944 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Composer of "BISHOP POWELL" in The United Methodist Hymnal David Ashley White (b. 1944) is a seventh-generation Texan, born in San Antonio, and he both studied and taught in Texas throughout his career. He majored in oboe at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, in composition for his Masters in Music at the University of Houston, and received a DMA from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1977 he has been on the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, teaching theory and composition. White is a widely published composer of many types of compositions and has received many commissions. Selah Publishing Co. published three collections of his hymns. Emily Brink

George C. Martin

1844 - 1916 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Composer of "EXULTATION (Martin)"

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