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John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Author of "Though hope desert my heart" in Ancient and Modern 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.
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John L. Bell
William Daman
1540 - 1591 Person Name: William Daman (1540-1591) Arranger of "SOUTHWELL" in Ancient and Modern Aliases: Damon; Damano; Demaunde; Damond; Dymond
Born: ca.1540
Died: 1591
Damon was a foreign composer resident in England. He arrived probably in England in 1566 as a servant of Sir Thomas Sackville. In 1576 he became a recorder player at the Court of Elizabeth I.
He was described as having been born in "Luke" and "Lewklande" and, on the assumption that these names refer to Luik or Liège, it has been inferred that he was a Walloon. However contemporary London records describe him as an Italian and a later reference refers to him having been born in "Luke in Italy", i.e. Lucca. His unanglicised name may have been Gulielmo (or Gulielmus) Damano.
Daman died from the effects of an ulcer and was buried at St Peter-le-Poer, London, on 26 March 1591.
List of choral works:
Beati omnes qui timent Dominum
Confitebor tibi Domine
Miserere nostri Domine
Omnis caro gramen sit
Praedicabo laudes tuae Domine
Spem in alium
Publications:
The Psalmes of David in English Metre (1579)
The Former Booke of Musicke of M. William Damon (1591)
The Second Booke of Musicke of M. William Damon (1591)
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William Daman
John Crothers
b. 1948 Person Name: John Crothers (b. 1948) Composer of "HOMEWARD" in Ancient and Modern
John Crothers
