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1921 - 2014 Harmonizer of "MCKEE" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement

1866 - 1949 Person Name: Harry T. Burleigh Adapter of "MC KEE" in The Presbyterian Hymnal 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

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[In Christ there is no East or West]" in Unity Song Selections James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Eunae Chung

Translator (Korean) of "In Christ There Is No East or West" in Lift Up Your Hearts Eunae Chung lives in Grand Rapids, MI, with her husband, Moses, and their two children. Lift Up Your Hearts, 2013

Grace Moore

Adapter (vs. 1 and 4) of "In Christ There Is No East Or West" in Catholic Book of Worship III

Laurence Hull Stookey

1937 - 2016 Author (st. 3) of "In Christ There Is No East or West" in The United Methodist Hymnal res.: Rockville, Md.; prof., Wesley Theological Seminary, Wash. D.C. Rev. Stookey died October 16, 2016. --UM News

Francis B. Westbrook

1903 - 1975 Person Name: Francis B. Westbrook, 1903-1975 Harmonizer of "MCKEE" in The Book of Praise

M. Liesengag

Translator (German) of "In Christ There Is No East or West" in Lift Up Your Hearts

Samuel Webbe

1770 - 1843 Person Name: Samuel Webbe, 1770-1843 Arranger of "RICHMOND" in The Beacon Song and Service book Samuel Webbe, Jr. (1770-1843), adapted the tune RICHMOND. He was organist at Paradise Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool (1798). Later he succeeded his father as organist at the Spanish Ambassador’s Chapel, London (1817), and then St. Nicholas’ Church and St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993