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Ere evening shadows round me close

Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: WOOLWICH

LONG MILFORD

Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Barnby Incipit: 56217 12314 43212 Used With Text: Ere evening's shadows round me close

WOOLWICH

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: A. Ewing Incipit: 13517 65543 43212 Used With Text: Ere evening shadows round me close

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Ere evening's shadows round me close

Hymnal: Hymn Tunes #30 (1897) Languages: English Tune Title: LONG MILFORD

Ere evening shadows round me close

Hymnal: The Children's Hymn Book #19 (1881) Languages: English Tune Title: WOOLWICH

1838 - 1896 Composer of "LONG MILFORD" in Hymn Tunes Joseph Barnby (b. York, England, 1838; d. London, England, 1896) An accomplished and popular choral director in England, Barnby showed his musical genius early: he was an organist and choirmaster at the age of twelve. He became organist at St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he developed an outstanding choral program (at times nicknamed "the Sunday Opera"). Barnby introduced annual performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in St. Anne's, Soho, and directed the first performance in an English church of the St. Matthew Passion. He was also active in regional music festivals, conducted the Royal Choral Society, and composed and edited music (mainly for Novello and Company). In 1892 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. His compositions include many anthems and service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as 246 hymn tunes (published posthumously in 1897). He edited four hymnals, including The Hymnary (1872) and The Congregational Sunday School Hymnal (1891), and coedited The Cathedral Psalter (1873). Bert Polman

A. Ewing

1830 - 1895 Composer of "WOOLWICH" in The Children's Hymn Book Alexander C (Rex) Ewing United Kingdom 1830-1895. Born at Aberdeen,Scotland, he studied music and German at Heidelberg University and law in Aberdeen. However, he did not qualify as a lawyer. A member of the Aberdeen Harmonic Choir and the Hadyn Society of Aberdeen, he was regarded as the most talented young musician in the city. He became an author, musician, editor, composer, and translator. He married Juliana Horatia Gatty in 1867. She died in 1885, and he remarried Elizabeth Margaret Cumby in 1886. He was a career officer in the British Army's Commissariat Department and subsequently the Army Pay Corps. He served at Constantinople during the Crimean War, thereafter in China for six years, then in Ireland during the Fenian Uprising. He was then in New Brunswick just after England created the British North American Act, creating the Dominion of Canada. He then went to Fredericton, where he played the organ and sang at Christ Church Cathedral. He was transferred to Aldershot. In 1879 he went to Malta, then served in Ceylon before returning to England. He reached the rank of Lt. Col. He translated several works by other authors. He retired and spent the last six years of his life in Taunton, England, where he died. John Perry