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I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Person Name: Isaac Baker Woodbury Scripture: Psalm 95 Composer of "CHOPIN" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Paul Leddington Wright

b. 1951 Person Name: Paul Leddington Wright, b. 1951 Scripture: Psalm 95:6-7 Arranger of "[I will worship with all my heart]" in Singing the Faith

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Person Name: George Lockwood (b. 1946) Scripture: Psalm 95:1-7 Translator of "Let's sing unto the Lord" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Elise Shoemaker Eslinger

b. 1942 Person Name: Elise Eslinger (b. 1942) Scripture: Psalm 95:1-7 Translator of "Let's sing unto the Lord" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Roberto Escamilla

b. 1931 Person Name: Roberto Escamilla (b. 1931) Scripture: Psalm 95:1-7 Translator of "Let's sing unto the Lord" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Dmitri Stepanovich Bortnianski

1751 - 1825 Person Name: Dimitri Bortniansky, 1752-1825 Scripture: Psalm 95 Composer of "ST. PETERSBURG" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) Dimitri Stepanovitch Bortniansky (1751-1825) Ukraine 1751-1825 Born in Glukhov, Ukraine, he joined the imperial choir at age 8 and studied with Galuppi, who later took the lad with him to Italy, where he studied for 10 years, becoming a composer, harpsichordist, and conductor. While in Italy he composed several operas and other instrumental music, composing more operas and music later in Russia. In 1779 he returned to Russia, where he was appointed Director to the Imperial Chapel Choir, the first as a native citizen. In 1796 he was appointed music director. With such a great instrument at his disposal, he produced many compositions, 100+ religious works, sacred concertos, cantatas, and hymns. He influenced Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovshy, the latter editing Bortniansky's sacred work, amassing 10 volumnes. He died in St. Petersburg. He was so popular in Russia that a bronze statue was erected in his honor in the Novgorod Kremlin. He composed in different musical styles, including choral works in French, Italian, Latin, German, and Church Slavonic. John Perry