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William Wilberforce Newton

1843 - 1914 Person Name: William W. Newton Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Author of "Long Ago, In Solemn Midnight" in The Cyber Hymnal

Peter M. Prange

b. 1972 Person Name: Peter M. Prange, b. 1972 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Author of "Christ, the Lord of Hosts, Unshaken" in Lutheran Service Book

Renato Ribeiro dos Santos

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Author of "Pelo Lar Que Tu Nos Deste" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão

1822 - 1888 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Composer of "SEGUR" in The New Christian Hymnal Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson

John E. Bowers

1923 - 2019 Person Name: John E. Bowers, b. 1923 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Author of "Christians, lift your hearts and voices" in Common Praise

João Marques da Mota Sobrinho

1883 - 1964 Person Name: João Marques da Mota Sobrinho (1883-1964) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Translator of "Entre nuvens multicores (1)" in Mil Vozes para Celebrar

David Hurd

b. 1950 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Composer of "JULION" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1950) was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. In 1987 David Hurd was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The following year he received honorary doctorates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. His I Sing As I Arise Today, the collected hymn tunes of David Hurd, was published in 2010. Bert Polman and Emily Brink

Jacob Weinberg

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Composer of "[If our God had not befriended]"

Moir A. J. Waters

1906 - 1980 Person Name: Moir A. J. Waters, 1906- Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Author of "Herald! Sound The Note Of Judgement" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Waters, Moir Alexander James. (Ujjain, India, January 15, 1906--January 15, 1980, London, Ontario). United Church of Canada. University of Toronto, B.A., 1928; ordination after study at Emmanuel College, 1931. Pastorates in Toronto, 1931-1932, 1945; Newton-on-Ayr (Scotland), 1932-1933; London (Ont.), 1933-1940, 1959-1973; Victoria, British Columbia, 1945-1955; Burlington, Ont., 1955-1959. He spent 1940-1945 in India, not far from where his father had built a hospital with the local maharajah's blessing, teaching at Indore Theological Seminary and evangelizing in nearby villages. After his retirement, he published privately three small collections of hymns he had written since returning to Canada, of which only one for Advent, "Herald! sound the note of judgment," had already become widely known. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, 1949- Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Author of "Praise with joy the world’s Creator" in Together in Song John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink