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Valeria A. Foster

Scripture: Luke 2:16 Arranger of "GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN" in African American Heritage Hymnal

1900 - 1983 Scripture: Luke 2:6-20 Harmonizer of "W ZLOBIE LEZY" in The Worshiping Church David Hugh Jones (1900-1983) Born: 1900, Jackson, Ohio. Jones attended the Guilford Organ School, New York City (graduated 1920), and the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau, France, and received honorary degrees from Washington and Jefferson, and Beaver Colleges. In 1924, he became a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists. He played the organ at churches in Portsmouth and Dayton, Ohio; and in New York City, Rome, and Brooklyn, New York. From 1934 until retiring in 1979, he was the Miller Chapel organist and choir director at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. In 1937, he founded the seminary’s touring choir, which sang at thousands of churches in America, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Caribbean islands, Japan, and Korea. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Hugo Jüngst

1853 - 1923 Scripture: Luke 2:20 Arranger of "JUNGST" in The Worshiping Church Hugo Richard Jungst Germany 1853-1923. Born at Dresden, Germany, he came from an affluent, middle-class merchant family, his father owning a factory and warehouse for French millstones. He received early piano lessons at age seven, and entered the Royal Conservatory of Music in Dresden for a six-year program of study, specializing in piano and composition. He studied with famous names of the time. In 1876 he founded the Dresden Mannergesangverein (men’s choir), which he headed until 1903. He was appointed Koniglichen (royal music director), and in 1898 royal professoir of music. He was an author, composer, and arranger known for carols, anthems, and music scores. He received several rewards in his lifetime, and perfomed internationally in Europe and America. He died in Dresden John Perry

Joseph Joubert

b. 1958 Scripture: Luke 2:15 Arranger of "[There's a star in the East on Christmas morn]" in African American Heritage Hymnal

Jane M. Joseph

1894 - 1929 Person Name: Jane Marion Joseph Scripture: Luke 2 Translator of "On This Day Earth Shall Ring" in The Presbyterian Hymnal

Mary Louise Bringle

b. 1953 Person Name: Mary Louise Bringle, n. 1953 Scripture: Luke 2:9-15 Translator of "Vamos todos a Belén (Let Us Go to Bethlehem)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Walter Ehret

1918 - 2009 Person Name: Walter Ehret, 1918- Scripture: Luke 2:16 Arranger of "STILL, STILL, STILL" in Worship and Rejoice EHRET--Walter, passed away on November 16th, 2009 at the age of 91, after a long, happy, and productive life. He left a great legacy as a teacher who touched many students' lives. He was the beloved husband and best friend of Beverly, his wife of 62 years, adored father of David Ehret and Christine Marver, and daughter-in-law Pamela Ehret, and the proud grandfather of Jeffrey, Julia, and Sarah Marver. Mr. Ehret was born in New York City in 1918 to Adele Tonies and her husband who tragically died in the flu epidemic of that year. He was later adopted by a kind stepfather, Charles Ehret. Walter Ehret was a graduate of the Julliard School of Music and Teachers College, Columbia University. He has served as an adjunct faculty member of Hofstra University, Manhattanville College, and Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, he taught instrumental and choral music in several New Jersey and New York school systems for over 40 years. In 1984 he retired as District Coordinator of Music for the Scarsdale, NY Public Schools. Choral groups under his direction have performed with distinction at contests and at other award-winning occasions. They have performed in Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden, as well as on radio and television. His organizations have been invited to sing at New Jersey and New York State School Music Association conventions, divisional meetings of the Music Educators National Conference, and the first American Choral Directors Association National Conference. He was a past president of the Music Educators Associations for Bergen, Nassau, and Westchester Counties. He was a former Vice President of Choirs for the New York State School Music Association, a former State Chairman of Junior High School Music of the New York State School Music Association, and a past member of several MENC committees. He was a founding member and first New York State president of the American Choral Directors Association. He is well known as a clinician, conductor, and choral literature specialist, and has functioned in these various capacities at over 300 workshops in some 30 states. He is one of the nation's most prolific and respected choral editors and arrangers, and has over 2000 publications in print. In addition, he is co-author of Growing with Music, a basic music series for grades K-8, co-author of Functional Lessons in Singing, a class voice textbook, author of The Choral Conductor's Handbook, and co-author of The International Book of Christmas Carols. --www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/

David Evans

1874 - 1948 Person Name: David Evans (1874-1948) Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Harmonizer of "STILLE NACHT" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) David Evans (b. Resolven, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1874; d. Rosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, 1948) was an important leader in Welsh church music. Educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, he received a doctorate in music from Oxford University. His longest professional post was as professor of music at University College in Cardiff (1903-1939), where he organized a large music department. He was also a well-known and respected judge at Welsh hymn-singing festivals and a composer of many orchestral and choral works, anthems, service music, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Scripture: Luke 2:6-19 Author of "Song of the Stable" in Gather Comprehensive Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Jonathan Malicsi

Scripture: Luke 2:16 Author of "Jesus Came into the World" in Hymns from the Four Winds Jonathan Malicsi UP Department of Linguistics University of the Philippines – Diliman PhD Philippine Studies (Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociology), University of the Philippines – Diliman Doctoral Enrichment Program (Linguistics), State University of New York in Buffalo MA Linguistics – University of the Philippines – Diliman BA English (Comparative Literature) – University of the Philippines – Diliman B Music (Voice) – University of the Philippines – Diliman --uplinguistics.wordpress.com/faculty/