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Jeffrey LaValley

Person Name: A. Jeffrey LaValley Scripture: Psalm 47:1-2 Author of "Hallelujah, Salvation, and Glory" in Voices Together Jeffrey LaValley, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and born in 1953 to Elder Allison and Mother Artie LaValley, Jeffrey began his musical career on a piano purchased for his older sister at the age of five. Jeffrey studied journalism at Pennsylvania State University in Monaca, Pennsylvania, and at Marquette University in Milwaukee. In 1986, Jeffrey began his formal musical studies, and enrolled in the music studies program at Mott Community College in Flint, where he achieved Dean’s List Status for 2 years, carrying a 4.0 average. His greatest accomplishments however, have been in the field of gospel music. As a writer, musician, director, and/or producer, Jeffrey has appeared on over 250 projects including the New Jerusalem Baptist Church Choir, Wilmington-Chester Mass Choir, Florida Mass Choir, Charles Fold & The Charles Fold Singers, Myrna Summers, Rev. Donald Vails, Rev. James Cleveland, The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship Mass Choir [which he produced, and was nominated for 1996 Stellar, Soul Train and Grammy Awards], Lou Rawls, and many others. Jeffrey coordinated the choral background vocals for the Palace of Auburn Hills concert performance of pop star George Michael, and appeared with Aretha Franklin in concert in Flint and at the Joe Dumars Retirement Celebration at the Palace of Auburn Hills. In 1989, he was awarded the G.M.W.A. Excellence Award for Song of the Year—Contemporary, “No Greater Love”. He was also featured as one of the top producers of 1994 in the Gospel Music Industry Roundup, the 1996 edition of the Gospel Music Industry Roundup, and was featured in the 1997 and 1998 editions of the Gospel Music Industry Roundup, as one of the most sought-after producers in Gospel music. His composition, “Revelation 19:1”, was chosen as the entrant for the Papal Celebration at the Vatican in June, 2006. In December, 2008, Jeffrey was fêted as a legend in the Flint Gospel Community. For over 40 years, Jeffrey has been musician/director and currently serves as the minister of music at the New Jerusalem Full Gospel Baptist Church in Flint. He also served as the International General Overseer Music for the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Presiding Bishop for nine years. On July 18, 2004, Jeffrey was ordained as an Elder by Bishop Odis A. Floyd. Flint Mayor Dane Walling recognized January 28, 2013, and July 27, 2013 as “Elder A. Jeffrey LaValley Day” in the city of Flint. Sunday, June 29, 2014, Jeffrey received the first Gospel Music Workshop of America-Flint Chapter “Richard A. Battle Lifetime Achievement Award”. In September of 2016, Jeffrey released his third solo project, “Hymns—The Limited Edition”, featuring seventeen of his favorite hymns rendered on Hammond B-3. Organ. In 2019, Jeffrey’s composition, Revelation 19:1, experienced an upsurge in popularity due to its inclusion on the set list of Kanye West’s Sunday Services. It was also sampled and included in the song, “Selah”, recorded by Kanye West on his project, “Jesus Is King”, which was certified gold on June 16, 2020. On Christmas Day, 2019, the song was re-released in its entirety as a part of the Kanye West project “Jesus is Born” by the Sunday Service Performance Choir. Jeffery LaValley

John Barnard

b. 1948 Scripture: Psalm 47 Arranger of "[Great is the Lord and how great is his kingdom]" in Psalms for All Seasons

Jakob Hintze

1622 - 1702 Person Name: Jakob Hintze, 1622-1702 Scripture: Psalm 47 Composer of "SALZBURG" in Lift Up Your Hearts Partly as a result of the Thirty Years' War and partly to further his musical education, Jakob Hintze (b. Bernau, Germany, 1622; d. Berlin, Germany, 1702) traveled widely as a youth, including trips to Sweden and Lithuania. In 1659 he settled in Berlin, where he served as court musician to the Elector of Brandenburg from 1666 to 1695. Hintze is known mainly for his editing of the later editions of Johann Crüger's Praxis Pietatis Melica, to which he contributed some sixty-five of his original tunes. Bert Polman

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach, 1685-1750 Scripture: Psalm 47 Harmonizer of "SALZBURG" in Lift Up Your Hearts Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Robert J. Batastini

b. 1942 Person Name: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Scripture: Psalm 47:2 Arranger of "[Shout to God, all you heavens]" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Robert J. Batastini is the retired vice president and senior editor of GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago. Bob has over fifty-five years of service in pastoral music ministry, having served several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago and one in the Diocese of Joliet. He served as executive editor and project director for the Worship hymnals (three editions), Gather hymnals (three editions), Catholic Community Hymnal, and as executive editor of RitualSong. In 1993 he became the first recipient of the Father Lawrence Heimann Citation for lifetime contribution to church music and liturgy in the U.S., awarded by St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana, and was named "Pastoral Musician of the Year-2000" by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). At its 2006 conference, he was named a Fellow of the Hymn society in the United States and Canada. In his retirement he is active in the music ministry of St. Francis de Sales Parish, Holland, MI. Nancy Naber, from www.giamusic.com/bios/