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Charles F. Gounod

1818 - 1893 Person Name: Charles F. Gounod, 1818-1893 Composer of "LUX FIAT " in Psalms for All Seasons Charles F. Gounod (b. Paris, France, 1818; d. St. Cloud, France, 1893) was taught initially by his pianist mother. Later he studied at the Paris Conservatory, won the "Grand Prix de Rome" in 1839, and continued his musical training in Vienna, Berlin, and Leipzig. Though probably most famous for his opera Faust (1859) and other instrumental music (including his Meditation sur le Prelude de Bach, to which someone added the Ave Maria text for soprano solo), Gounod also composed church music-four Masses, three Requiems, and a Magnificat. His smaller works for church use were published as Chants Sacres. When he lived in England (1870-1875), Gounod became familiar with British cathedral music and served as conductor of what later became the Royal Choral Society. Bert Polman

Geoffrey Beaumont

1903 - 1970 Person Name: G. P. Beaumont (1903-1970) Composer of "CHESTERTON" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Emily Crawford

1864 - 1927 Person Name: Emily M. Crawford (1864-1927) Author of "Speak, Lord, in the stillness" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Emily May Grimes Crawford is described in the author index of the Book of Common Praise (Toronto, 1938) as a Canadian Anglican [as author of "The Master comes! He calls for thee], which she altogether was nor was not. The hymn was first published in London by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1890, before Emily May Grimes had ever left her native England. In 1893, she went to South Africa under CMS sponsorship to work among the Pondo tribe; then, in 1904, she married T.W.W. Crawford, M.D., and went to work with him among the Kikuyu of Kenya. Her career thus far is outlined in Julian (1907), p. 1712. The mission station at which the bride arrived had indeed been started by the CMS, but had been turned over to the newly-formed missionary department of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC); most of her colleagues were Canadian-born like her husband--to add a grace note of confusion--his brother! Both hailed from western Ontario, where Thomas had trained in medicine at the University of Western Ontario (London), while Edward took theology at Huron College. Thus all three of them were working under Canadian sponsorship until 1913, when Thomas and Emily left for England, she in quest of treatment for arthritis, he for further medical training--which perhaps he needed, if he thought the English climate would help anybody's arthritis! Rev. E.W. Crawford continued on in Kenya; his subsequent career can be traced through Crockford's Clerical Dictionary. Whatever plans for their future they may have made were necessarily altered by the outbreak of World War I, which found, and kept, them in England. They may have intended to come to Canada when they could, but in fact they never did: they were still in England when Emily died in 1927. She wrote, and the British Museum Catalogue lists, under her maiden name, all the books she published after her marriage. Although at the time a woman automatically acquired the citizenship of the man she married, Emily was never a Canadian citizen: no such status existed until twenty years after she died. Although she and Dr. Crawford hailed from different parts of the Empire, they were both British subjects by birth, and remained such. Therefore her connection with Canada was never more than indirect, though this may not have been what she intended. --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives

H. T. Burleigh

1866 - 1949 Person Name: Harry T. Burleigh, 1866-1949 Adapter of "McKEE" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Harry T. Burleigh (b. Erie, PA, 1866; d. Stamford, CT, 1949) began his musical career as a choirboy in St. Paul's Cathedral, Erie, Pennsylvania. He also studied at the National Conservatory of Music, New York City, where he was befriended by Antonín Dvořák and, according to tradition, provided Dvořák with some African American musical themes that became part of Dvořák's New World Symphony. Burleigh composed at least two hundred works but is most remembered for his vocal solo arrangements of African American spirituals. In 1944 Burleigh was honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Bert Polman

Bryn Rees

1911 - 1983 Person Name: Bryn A. Rees, b. 1911 Author of "The Kingdom of God" in Gather Comprehensive

Norman Warren

1934 - 2019 Person Name: Norman Warren (born 1934) Composer of "YVONNE" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Edmund Sydney Waragoda

Author of "Son of the Father (Jesuni devputh rajathumne)" in Sound the Bamboo

Dan Feiten

Person Name: Dan Feiten, b. 1953 Author of "Seed, Scattered and Sown" in Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition As a founding member of EKKLESIA, Dan Feiten was transformed and blessed by a music ministry that has profoundly touched many. His composition, "Seed, Scattered and Sown," has been sung in churches across the continents, including St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Other notable songs include: "Let the Heavens Be Glad," "Create in Me," "My Soul Is Thirsting" and "Be Near Me, Lord," and have withstood the test of time as they continue to be prayerfully sung by parish families everywhere. Dan is blessed by his ongoing service in the music ministry of Most Precious Blood Parish in Denver, Colorado. --www.ilpmusic.org/