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Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Person Name: Frederick Pratt Green (1903-2000) Scripture: Psalm 22:28 Author of "It is God who holds the nations in the hollow of his hand" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

Walford Davies

1869 - 1941 Person Name: Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) Scripture: Psalm 22:28 Composer of "VISION" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

John Wilson

1905 - 1992 Person Name: John Whitridge Wilson (1905-1992) Scripture: Psalm 22:28 Arranger of "VISION" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Biographical article in the journal of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland: https://hymnsocietygbi.org.uk/1992/10/treasure-no-58-john-wilson-1905-92

Ronald F. Krisman

Scripture: Psalm 22:8-9 Translator (Antiphon) of "Psalm 22: My God, My God (Dios Mío, Dios Mío" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Tony Alonso

b. 1980 Person Name: TA Scripture: Psalm 22 Composer of "[Dios mío, Dios mío]" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Tony Alonso has published several collections of liturgical music and his music appears in many hymnals throughout the world. He has an Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and a M.A. degree in theology from Loyola Marymount University.

Donatus Vervoort

Scripture: Psalm 22:1-18 Composer of "[My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?]" in Voices United

Elizabeth Manford Clark

Person Name: E. M. Clark Scripture: Psalm 22:1-6 Composer of "WHY STAND AFAR" in Bible Songs Early 20th Century

Randall Keith DeBruyn

b. 1947 Person Name: Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947 Scripture: Psalm 22 Arranger of "[O God, my God, why have you abandoned me]" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Thomas Sternhold

1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Scripture: Psalm 22 Author of "Deus, Deus meus" in The Whole Booke of Psalmes Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.