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Jesus waits to answer prayer

Author: H. B. Jones Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Dark and dreary is the life

ABERYSTWYTH

Appears in 278 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Parry, Mus. Doc. Incipit: 11234 53213 21712 Used With Text: Jesus Waits to Answer Prayer

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Jesus waits to answer prayer

Author: H. B. Jones Hymnal: Blessed Hope Hymnal #d15 (1910) First Line: Dark and dreary is the life Languages: English

Jesus Waits to Answer Prayer

Author: H. B. Jones Hymnal: Revival Melodies #12 (1905) First Line: Dark and dreary is the life Languages: English Tune Title: ABERYSTWYTH

1841 - 1903 Person Name: Joseph Parry, Mus. Doc. Composer of "ABERYSTWYTH" in Revival Melodies Joseph Parry (b. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1841; d. Penarth, Glamorganshire, 1903) was born into a poor but musical family. Although he showed musical gifts at an early age, he was sent to work in the puddling furnaces of a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh settlement in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1854, where Parry later started a music school. He traveled in the United States and in Wales, performing, studying, and composing music, and he won several Eisteddfodau (singing competition) prizes. Parry studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Cambridge, where part of his tuition was paid by interested community people who were eager to encourage his talent. From 1873 to 1879 he was professor of music at the Welsh University College in Aberystwyth. After establishing private schools of music in Aberystwyth and in Swan sea, he was lecturer and professor of music at the University College of South Wales in Cardiff (1888-1903). Parry composed oratorios, cantatas, an opera, orchestral and chamber music, as well as some four hundred hymn tunes. Bert Polman