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Alice Parker

1925 - 2023 Harmonizer of "HANTS" in Voices United

Mather Almon Abbott

1874 - 1934 Person Name: M. Abbott Composer of "DAY" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book

1936 - 2013 Composer of "STEVENS" in Baptist Hymnal (1975 ed) Born in Little Rock, Ark., Red earned his bachelor's degree in church music from Baylor University in 1957. While a student, he was involved in the Baylor Religious Hour Choir and the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia national professional music fraternity. He also received a degree from Yale University in 1961 and as of 2007 resided in New York City. Red was described by The Washington Post as "uncommonly creative," with his musical works as a composer, conductor, producer and arranger heard in such diverse venues as Carnegie Hall, "Saturday Night Live" and thousands of schools, churches and theaters around the world. He had more than 1,600 published compositions and arrangements, produced more than 2,500 recordings and supervised, composed or arranged the music for several hundred shows, documentaries and musical specials for network and cable television. Several of Red's choral works including "Celebrate Life" and the first performing edition of Pergolesi's Magnificat are considered landmarks in their fields. He served as executive record producer for some of the most widely used music textbooks in the United States, including the recent Silver Burdett Making Music series and was honored with the inclusion of his well-known song, "In Remembrance," in The African-American Heritage Hymnal published in 2001. He was also honored with many civic and professional awards and degrees. Red served as musical director of The CenturyMen, an auditioned men's chorus of professional musicians who are directors of music in Baptist churches across America and from around the world. He died April 1, 2013.

Francis Duckworth

1862 - 1941 Composer of "DOWNHAM" in Redemption Hymnal Born: December 25, 1862, Rimington, Yorkshire, England. Died: August 16, 1941, at his home Swanside in Colne, England. Buried: St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Gisburn, Lancashire. His gravestone bears the music of Rimington, and a plaque to his memory was placed above the doorway to the former Methodist Chapel in Stopper Lane, Lancashire. When Duckworth was five years old, his family moved to the village of Stopper Lane, near Rimington. He had to leave school at age 12 to help in the family business. At age 20, he moved to Burnley, Lancashire, to work for a tobacconist cousin. Six years later, he returned to live at Colne, and in 1899 took a grocery business in Market Street, Colne. Duckworth had an early interest in music, but received only three months of formal lessons. Shortly after arriving in Colne, he became deputy organist (later organist) at the Albert Road Methodist Church, serving until 1929. He composed numerous hymn tunes, 18 of them appearing in the Rimington Hymnal. His tune Rimington was sung by a massive congregation of British troops on the Mount of Olives after the surrender of Jerusalem during World War I. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Charles H. Morse

b. 1853 Composer of "BENEDICTUS" in The Hymnal of Praise

J. H. Roberts

1848 - 1924 Composer of "AMANA" in Mawl a chân = praise and song

Frank Earnest

1885 - 1952 Composer of "COURAGE" in The Voice of Thanksgiving No. 5

Ruthanne Fulton

Person Name: Ruthanne Pursley Composer of "CEASELESS LOVE" in Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship Ruthanne Fulton Pursley, studied MM Choral Conducting at University of Louisville, Studied MDiv-Worship at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Studied Piano Performance at Bowling Green State University. Dianne Shapiro, from Facebook

George Frideric Handel

1685 - 1759 Person Name: George F. Handel Composer of "THACHER" in Church Hymns and Gospel Songs George Frideric Handel (b. Halle, Germany, 1685; d. London, England, 1759) became a musician and composer despite objections from his father, who wanted him to become a lawyer. Handel studied music with Zachau, organist at the Halle Cathedral, and became an accomplished violinist and keyboard performer. He traveled and studied in Italy for some time and then settled permanently in England in 1713. Although he wrote a large number of instrumental works, he is known mainly for his Italian operas, oratorios (including Messiah, 1741), various anthems for church and royal festivities, and organ concertos, which he interpolated into his oratorio performances. He composed only three hymn tunes, one of which (GOPSAL) still appears in some modern hymnals. A number of hymnal editors, including Lowell Mason, took themes from some of Handel's oratorios and turned them into hymn tunes; ANTIOCH is one example, long associated with “Joy to the World.” Bert Polman