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Mary Bittner

1938 - 2007 Person Name: Mary R. Bittner Scripture: James 5:7-10 Author of "Have You Come to Hear the Prophet?" in Water from the Rock Mary Bittner was a native of Pennsylvania and received a B.S. in music education from Penn State University. She taught piano, organ, clarinet, and school music, and also served as music director and/or organist in Baptist, United Methodist, and Presbyterian churches and a U.S. Air Force Base Protestant chapel. In 1991 she became organist at Knox Presbyterian Church in Naperville, IL. She was an active member of the Naperville chapter of the Illinois State Music Teachers Association, and honored as Member of the year in 1998. She also participated in recitals and activities of the Fox Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She began writing hymns in 1990 while enrolled in a church music degree program at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She received her Master of Theological Studies in church music in 1993, the same year she began attending hymn writing workshops and conferences of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Mary died from cancer in 2007. Source: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailyherald/obituary.aspx?pid=93934328

A. F. Myers

Person Name: A. F. M. Scripture: James 5:20 Author of "Bringing Precious Souls to Him" in The Search Light Augustus (Gus) Franklin Myers USA 1850-1902. Born at Ashland, OH, he was a music composer and publisher. He may have taught music, as his title of ‘Professor’, is noted by one source. His song books include: “The life line”, “The search light” (1894), “The seed sower” (1897). He wrote many lyrics and tunes. He died at Toledo, OH. John Perry

Brian Ruttan

Person Name: Brian Ruttan (1947-) Scripture: James 5:1-6 Author of "Where Jordan Cuts the Wilderness" in Common Praise (1998)

Alan Luff

Person Name: Alan Luff (1928-) Scripture: James 5:13-20 Author of "For All Your Blessings" in Common Praise (1998)

Paul Rumbolt

Scripture: James 5:13 Author of "What Can I Do?" in More Voices

Michele McCarthy

Scripture: James 5:13 Author of "What Can I Do?" in More Voices

Robin Mann

b. 1949 Person Name: Robin Mann, 1949- Scripture: James 5:1-6 Author of "Lord, hear my praying, listen to me" in Together in Song

Adam M. L. Tice

b. 1979 Scripture: James 5:13-18 Author of "When Pain or Sorrow / Hold On" in Voices Together

Edward Ritchie

b. 1937 Scripture: James 5:20 Author of "Lord God of Everything That Breathes" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition)

Winfred Douglas

1867 - 1944 Person Name: C. Winfred Douglas (1867-1944) Scripture: James 5:1-6 Harmonizer of "MORNING SONG" in Common Praise (1998) Charles Winfred Douglas (b. Oswego, NY, 1867; d. Santa Rosa, CA, 1944), an influential leader in Episcopalian liturgical and musical life. Educated at Syracuse University and St. Andrews Divinity School, Syracuse, New York, he moved to Colorado for his health. There he studied at St. Matthew's Hall, Denver, and founded the Mission of the Transfiguration in Evergreen (1897). Ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1899, he also studied in France, Germany and England, where he spent time with the Benedictines of Solesmes on the Island of Wight from 1903 to 1906. For much of his life, Douglas served as director of music at the Community of St. Mary in Peekskill, New York, and had associations with cathedrals in Denver, Colorado, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He promoted chanting and plainsong in the Episcopal Church through workshops and publications such as The American Psalter (1929), the Plainsong Psalter (1932), and the Monastic Diurnal (1932). His writings include program notes for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, various hymn preludes; organ, as well as the book, Church Music in History and Practice (1937). He was editor of both the Hymnal 1916 and its significant successor, Hymnal 1940, of the Episcopal Church. Douglas's other achievements include a thorough knowledge of the life and culture of Hopi and Navajo natives, among whom he lived for a number of years. Bert Polman

Ruth Watson Henderson

b. 1932 Person Name: Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-) Scripture: James 5:13-20 Composer of "ISLINGTON" in Common Praise (1998) Henderson, Ruth Watson; b. Nov. 23, 1932, Toronto; Canadian organist, pianist, accompanist

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 - 1827 Person Name: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827 Scripture: James 5:14 Composer of "GERMANY" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 A giant in the history of music, Ludwig van Beethoven (b. Bonn, Germany, 1770; d. Vienna, Austria, 1827) progressed from early musical promise to worldwide, lasting fame. By the age of fourteen he was an accomplished viola and organ player, but he became famous primarily because of his compositions, including nine symphonies, eleven overtures, thirty piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, the Mass in C, and the Missa Solemnis. He wrote no music for congregational use, but various arrangers adapted some of his musical themes as hymn tunes; the most famous of these is ODE TO JOY from the Ninth Symphony. Although it would appear that the great calamity of Beethoven's life was his loss of hearing, which turned to total deafness during the last decade of his life, he composed his greatest works during this period. Bert Polman