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David A. Robb
Person Name: David A. Robb, b. 1932 Author of "Children from Your Vast Creation" in Sing! A New Creation
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J. D. Robb
1892 - 1989 Person Name: John Donald Robb, 1892-1989 Translator of "Oh, Sleep Now, Holy Baby" in With One Voice John Donald Robb (1892-1989) was born in Minneapolis and educated at Yale University and Harvard University. He practiced law until 1941, when he moved from New York to the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, where he was professor and head of the music department. He retired in 1957.
Robb was a prolific composer. He wrote an opera, Little Jo (1947-1949); three symphonies, orchestral music, chamber music, and electronic pieces. He was also a collector of Hispanic folk music which was published in Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico/ (1954; rev., 1978) and Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest (1980).
--The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993
J. D. Robb
John Gooch Robberds
1789 - 1854 Person Name: J. G. Robberds Author of "Now your pleasant labors close" Robberds, John Gooch, 1789-1854. Minister for many years at Cross Street Chapel, Manchester. Author of a Sunday Evening hymn in Martineau’s Hymns for the Christian Church and Home and Martineau’s Hymns of Praise and Prayer, “Now your pleasant labours close."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Gooch Robberds
Chandler Robbins
1810 - 1882 Author of "Grateful thanks, before we part" Robbins, Chandler, D.D., was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Feb. 14, 1810, and educated at Harvard College (1829), and the Cambridge Divinity School (1833). In 1833 he became Pastor of the Second [Unitarian] Church, Boston, succeeding Dr. H. Ware, jun., and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He received his D.D. degree from Harvard in 1855, and died at Westport, Massachusetts, Sept. 12, 1882. Dr. Robbins published several prose works. He also edited The Social Hymn Book in 1843, and Hymns for Christian Worship, 1854. His two hymns,"Lo, the day of rest declineth" (Evening), and "While thus [now] Thy throne of grace we seek " (The Voice of God), appeared in Dr. G. E. Ellis's Psalms & Hymns for the Sanctuary, 1845. L. B. Barnes's tune, "Bedford Street," was written for the former.
[Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Chandler Robbins
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