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Herbert G. Draesel

1940 - 2023 Person Name: Herbert G. Draesel Jr., b. 1940 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "PEACE OF GOD" in Lutheran Book of Worship

Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Within the Shadow of the Cross" in Discipleship Ministries Collection The Reverend F. Richard Garland is a retired United Methodist pastor. He and his wife, Catherine Sprigg, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, live in North Kingstown, RI. Dick was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is a lifelong Methodist. A graduate of Garrett Theological Seminary, he interned in Chicago and then served churches in Indiana, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. He continues to preach on occasion, provide coverage in emergency pastoral situations, and write a monthly essay, "From Where I Sit" for the newsletter of the North Kingstown UMC. He has been a contributor to The Upper Room. Dick is a lifelong hiker who still climbs in the mountains of New Hampshire. At home, he spends a great deal of time in his flower gardens. He has sung with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra and is a member of the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts. Dick wrote his first hymn, a children's song, in a seminary music class with Austin C. Lovelace, and he has written poetry for many years. He began writing hymns for use in his churches about twenty years ago, but did not submit them for publication until 2006, after being encouraged to do so by a classmate and friend. Many of his texts are inspired by the seasons of the church year, particularly Christmas and Easter, and by Scriptures from the Lectionary. In April of 2007, an appeal from a clergy colleague for a memorial hymn in response to the shootings at Virginia Tech University resulted in the creation of his hymn, In Grief and Aching Sorrow, set to the tune, Passion Chorale by J.S. Bach. Once, his pastor, frustrated in trying to find enough hymns to go with the Good Samaritan story in Luke 10:25-37, asked him to write a new hymn for a service. The result was his hymn, "When We Would Neighbor Be." On a dare from a colleague, he revealed a whimsical side by writing a hymn for Groundhog Day, "Praise the Lord for Woodland Creatures." His hymn, "I Have a Dream," was written to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the address by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He has written a series of texts based on the selections from the Letters to the Ephesians and to the Philippians found in the New Revised Common Lectionary. F. Richard Garland

William Dixon

1750 - 1825 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "LANESBORO" in Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary Born: 1750-60, London, England. A composer, writer, teacher, and music engraver, Dixon lived in London and Liverpool. His works include: Psalmodia Christiana, 1790 Euphonia Introduction to Singing, 1795 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Shirley Lewis Brown

Person Name: Shirley L. Brown Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "[Within the shelter of our walls]" in Contemporary Hymn Tunes

C. Warwick Jordan

1840 - 1909 Person Name: C. W. Jordan, 1840-1909 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "GEORGIA" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Born: January 27, 1841, Bristol, Gloucester, England. Died: August 30, 1909, Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, England. Cremated: Golders Green, London, England. Jordan began his musical career as a chorister, first at Bristol Cathedral and later at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was educated at Oxford (BMus 1869), and received the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music in 1886. A champion of plainsong, he was an honorary organist of the London Gregorian Association, where he took a prominent part in the annual festivals at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was a professor of organ and harmony at the Guildhall School of Music, and an honorary fellow, examiner and treasurer of the Royal College of Organists. Jordan held organist positions at St. Paul’s, Bunhill Row (1857); St. Luke’s Holloway (1860); and from 1866 until his death at St. Stephen’s Church, Lewisham (where he was also choir master). His works include: One Hundred and Fifty Harmonies (London: Novello, Ewer & Company, 1880) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Nancy C. Dorian

b. 1936 Person Name: Nancy C. Dorian, 1936- Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Dear Weaver of Our Lives' Design" in Singing the Living Tradition

Charles E. Ives

1874 - 1954 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "SERENITY" in The United Methodist Hymnal Charles Ives Born: 1874, Died: 1954 Born in Danbury, Connecticut on 20 October 1874, Charles Ives pursued what is perhaps one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. Businessman by day and composer by night, Ives's vast output has gradually brought him recognition as the most original and significant American composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, Ives sought a highly personalized musical expression through the most innovative and radical technical means possible. A fascination with bi-tonal forms, polyrhythms, and quotation was nurtured by his father who Ives would later acknowledge as the primary creative influence on his musical style. Studies at Yale with Horatio Parker guided an expert control overlarge-scale forms. Ironically, much of Ives's work would not be heard until his virtual retirement from music and business in 1930 due to severe health problems. The conductor Nicolas Slonimsky, music critic Henry Bellamann, pianist John Kirkpatrick (who performed the Concord Sonata at its triumphant premiere in New York in 1939), and the composer Lou Harrison (who conducted the premiere of the Symphony No. 3) played a key role in introducing Ives's music to a wider audience. Henry Cowell was perhaps the most significant figure in fostering public and critical attention for Ives's music, publishing several of the composer's works in his New Music Quarterly. In 1947, Ives was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 3, according him a much deserved modicum of international renown. Soon after, his works were taken up and championed by such leading conductors as Leonard Bernstein and, at his death in 1954, he had witnessed a rise from obscurity to a position of unsurpassed eminence among the world's leading performers and musical institutions. --www.schirmer.com

J. Richardson

Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "STANFIELD (Richardson)"

Nevitt B. Smith

Person Name: Nevitt Brenton Smith Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "A Prayer for Unity" in Five New Hymns for Youth by Youth Smith, Nevitt Brenton. Born in Lucknow, India, of Methodist missionary parents. A.B. degree from Willamette University in 1945, and S.T.B. from Boston University School of Theology in 1949. Served churches in Medford, Massachusetts and Portland, Oregon. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives

Edwin J. Orchard

b. 1834 Person Name: E. J. Orchard, 1834-1915 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "ROYAL FORT" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Orchard, Edwin John, a chemist at Salisbury, was born at Whitchurch, Hants, in 1834. In 1869 he published a collection of original tunes as Orchard's Supplemental Psalmody. His hymn, "I have a Father up in heaven" (The Divine Father), appeared in W. R. Stevenson's School Hymnal, 1880, and again in other collections. One of his songs, "The Muster Roll," has been widely circulated in the Army. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)