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Jose Antonio Olivar

1939 - 2019 Person Name: Jose Antonio Oliver, 1939- Topics: Unity and Diversity Author of "Cuando el Pobre (When the Poor Ones)" in Singing the Journey José Antonio Olivar is also a writer and journalist Efe Agency and a very dear person in Lastres. The son of a seafaring family, Olivier went through difficult times during his childhood. He lost his parents and four brothers and faced the harsh post-war period as an orphan. Hosted by his grandmother, he studied at the Seminary of Covadonga and Oviedo and he built a career of great prestige and recognition throughout the country. He has won several national awards for poetry and has worked as a journalist in popular newspapers and national agencies. In his journalistic work out the last time as deputy director of the magazine "Hello!". Olivar printed in this genre of magazines and friendly style compatible with both newsworthy. He has traveled around the world, interviewing and making friends with the most diverse personalities from all fields of social life, art and politics. It also cites his role as music composer with known letters to both religious and secular songs. The prize "Honor Manín 2012" will be presented by the choir sailor on the eve of the big day the festival of San Roque de Llastres, on August 18th, at eight o'clock. --https://www.lne.es/oriente/2012/06/24/jose-antonio-olivar-subdirector-revista-20866231.html

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Topics: Commandments / Law; Diversity; Family and Relationships; Justice; Marriage / Wedding; Peace; Unity Arranger of "KINGSFOLD" in Hymns for a Pilgrim People Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

Omer Westendorf

1916 - 1997 Person Name: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1998 Topics: Thursday of the Lord's Supper; Eucharist; Brotherhood and Sisterhood; Christian Life; Diversity; Ecuminism; Holiness; Love for God; Love for Others; Presence of God; Reconciliation; Social Concern; Strength; Unity Translator of "Where Charity and Love Prevail" in Gather (3rd ed.) Omer Westendorf, one of the earliest lyricists for Roman Catholic liturgical music in English, died on October 22, 1997, at the age of eighty-one. Born on February 24, 1916, Omer got his start in music publishing after World War II, when he brought home for his parish choir in Cincinnati some of the Mass settings he had discovered in Holland. Interest in the new music being published in Europe led to his creation of the World Library of Sacred Music, initially a music-importing firm that brought much of this new European repertoire to U.S. parishes. Operating out of a garage in those early years, Omer often joked about the surprised expressions of visitors who stopped by and found a wide range of sheet music in various states of “storage” (read disarray). Later, as World Library Publications, the company began publishing some of its own music, including new works with English texts by some of those same Dutch composers, for example, Jan Vermulst. In 1955 World Library published the first edition of The Peoples Hymnal, which would become the People's Mass Book in 1964, one of the first hymnals to reflect the liturgical reforms proposed by Vatican II. Omer also introduced the music of Lucien Deiss to Catholic parishes through the two volumes of Biblical Hymns and Psalms. Using his own name and several pen names, Omer composed numerous compositions for liturgical use, though his best-known works may be the texts for the hymns “Where Charity and Love Prevail,” “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing,” and especially “Gift of Finest Wheat.” As he lay dying, his family and friends gathered around his bed to sing his text “Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come, Feed Us.” NPM honored Omer as its Pastoral Musician of the Year in 1985. --liturgicalleaders.blogspot.com/2008 =========================== Pseudonyms: Paul Francis Mark Evans J. Clifford Evers --Letter from Tom Smith, Executive Director of The Hymn Society, to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 February 1980. DNAH Archives.

Joseph Brackett

1797 - 1882 Person Name: Joseph Brackett, Jr., 1797-1882 Topics: Eucharist; Angels; Christian Life; Communion of Saints; Community; Diversity; Feast; Heaven; Hunger and Thirst; Love for God; Love for Others; Saints; Unity Composer of "SIMPLE GIFTS" in Gather (3rd ed.) Joseph Brackett Jr. (May 6, 1797 – July 4, 1882) was an American songwriter, author, and elder of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers. Brackett's most famous song, "Simple Gifts", is still widely performed and adapted. See also in: Wikipedia

Alvin Schutmaat

1921 - 1988 Topics: Unity and Diversity Arranger of "EL CAMINO" in Singing the Journey Alvin Schutmaat (b. 1921; d. 1988). Using arts to communicate the gospel, Columbian Alvin Schutmaat studied Latin American literature and education in Edinburgh, returning to Colombia to teach theology and music at the Presbyterian Seminary in Bogata; he also taught at the Latin American Biblical Seminary in Costa Rica. Sing! A New Creation!

John Andrew Storey

b. 1935 Person Name: John Andrew Storey, 1935- Topics: Unity and Diversity Author of "Our Faith Is but a Single Gem" in Singing the Living Tradition Unitarian-Universalist

Edwin H. Wilson

b. 1898 Person Name: Edwin Henry Wilson, 1898-1993 Topics: Unity and Diversity Author of "Where Is Our Holy Church?" in Singing the Living Tradition Wilson, Rev. Edwin Henry, D.D. (Chester Park, Long Island, New York, August 23, 1898--?). He graduated from Boston University, 1922; from Meadville Theological School, 1926; and took the degree of M.A. at the University of Chicago, 1928. He served as minister of Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Schenectady, N.Y.; and Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1949 he became Director of the American Humanist Association. His hymn beginning "Where is our holy church?" written in 1928, in included in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Melchior Franck

1559 - 1639 Person Name: Melchior Franck, c. 1579-1639 Topics: Unity and Diversity Composer of "[When will the fighting cease]" in Singing the Journey Melchior Franck; b. about 1580, Zittau, Germany; d. 1639, Coburg, Germany Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Adam M. L. Tice

b. 1979 Topics: Unity in Diversity Author of "We Dream of a Turning" in Voices Together

Philip A. Porter

b. 1953 Person Name: Philip A. Porter (estadounidense, n. 1953) Topics: Unity and Diversity Author of "Unidos en el misterio" in Las Voces del Camino