PRESENCE (Obsorne)

Composer: Stanley L. Osborne

Stanley Llewellen Osborne, studied music at the University Toronto, and later, theology at Emmanuel College, and was ordained a United Church Minister in 1932. Dr. Osborne was co-editor of the United Church's Canadian Youth Hymnal (1939), and full-time secretary to the joint committee of the United Church and the Anglican Church of Canada for The Hymn Book, which they published together in 1971. In 1975 he completed If Such Holy Song, the story of the hymns in the Hymn Book 1971. --SICM (Summer Institute of Church Music, 03 July 2014. Go to person page >