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Skinner Chávez-Melo

1944 - 1992 Composer of "RAQUEL" in Voices Together Skinner Chavez-Melo, an organist, conductor and composer who was music director at the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan, died on Saturday at New York Downtown Hospital. He was 47 years old and lived in Manhattan. He died of spinal cancer, said his brother, Juan Francisco. Mr. Chavez-Melo was born in Mexico City, but completed his musical studies in the United States, receiving degrees at Eastern Nazarene College and the Union Theological Seminary, and pursuing further studies at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School. He toured internationally as an organist and conducted orchestras in Mexico, Brazil and the United States. As a composer, he wrote works for organ, choir and orchestra, and contributed hymn settings to several published hymnals, including those of the United Church of Christ and Yale University. He also lectured and presented workshops on Hispanic church music. Besides directing music at St. Rose, Mr. Chavez-Melo conducted the annual Singing Christmas Tree concerts at the South Street Seaport. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/28

Ivor Jones

1934 - 2016 Person Name: Ivor Jones, b. 1934 Author of "Christ, Our King before Creation" in Catholic Book of Worship III

Murray Kroetsch

b. 1952 Person Name: Murray J. Kroetsch, b. 1952 Author of "Mary, Mother of Good Counsel" in Catholic Book of Worship III

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Author of "As We Gather at Your Table" in Sing the Faith Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

Ronald F. Krisman

Person Name: Ronald F. Krisman, n. 1946 Translator of "Como Estrella en Claro Cielo (As a Star on Cloudless Evenings)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Roland F. Palmer

1891 - 1985 Person Name: Roland F. Palmer, 1891-1985 Author of "Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly" in With One Voice Palmer, Roland Ford. (London, England, December 12, 1891--August 24, 1985, Victoria, British Columbia). Anglican. Trinity College (Toronto), L.Th., 1914; B.A., 1916. Pastorates (in Ontario) at Engleheart, 1916-1918; Port Arthur, 1918-1919. Entered the Society of St. John the Evangelist ("Cowley Fathers") at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919; novice master, later Superior, at San Francisco, 1921-1927; Superior at Bracebridge, Ont., 1927-1949, 1966-1969; Diocesan Missioner, Algoma Diocese, 1949-1966; retired to Toronto in 1969, moving to Victoria in 1979. He published four devotional books, and contributed much to the 1959 revision of the Canadian Prayer Book. His hymn "Sing of Mary, pure and lowly" in the 1938 Book of Common Praise was credited as "Anon., c.1914." --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Jilton Moraes

Author of "Santuários nós somos" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão (2nd ed.)

Ruth C. Duck

1947 - 2024 Person Name: Ruth Duck Author of "Womb of Life" in Sing the Faith

Jeffery W. Rowthorn

1934 - 2025 Person Name: Jeffrey Rowthorn Author of "Lord, You Give the Great Commission" in Voices Together

Lavon Bayler

b. 1933 Author of "Hear the Voice of God, So Tender" in The New Century Hymnal Lavon Baylor was born on January 17, 1933 in Sandusky, Ohio. She earned a Bachelor's degree from Iowa State Teachers College in 1955, a Master in Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary (St. Louis) in 1959 and did postgraduate work at Lancaster Theological Seminary. She has pastored Church of Christ and Congregational congregations in Ohio and Illinois. She is the author of Fresh Winds of the Spirit: liturgical resources for year A, Whispers of God: liturgical resources for year B and "Refreshing rains of the living Word: liturgical resources for year, as well as other books. Dianne Shapiro, from Prabook (www.prabook.com, accessed 2-3-2019)