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Samuel Webbe

1740 - 1816 Person Name: Samuel Webbe, the elder (1740-1816) Topics: Church Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit as Comforter; Holy Spirit gifts of; Holy Spirit Invocation of; Light; Pentecost and the Work of the Holy Spirit; Renewal Composer of "VENI SANCTE SPIRITUS" in Ancient and Modern Samuel Webbe (the elder; b. London, England, 1740; d. London, 1816) Webbe's father died soon after Samuel was born without providing financial security for the family. Thus Webbe received little education and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker at the age of eleven. However, he was determined to study and taught himself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, and Italian while working on his apprenticeship. He also worked as a music copyist and received musical training from Carl Barbant, organist at the Bavarian Embassy. Restricted at this time in England, Roman Catholic worship was freely permitted in the foreign embassies. Because Webbe was Roman Catholic, he became organist at the Portuguese Chapel and later at the Sardinian and Spanish chapels in their respective embassies. He wrote much music for Roman Catholic services and composed hymn tunes, motets, and madrigals. Webbe is considered an outstanding composer of glees and catches, as is evident in his nine published collections of these smaller choral works. He also published A Collection of Sacred Music (c. 1790), A Collection of Masses for Small Choirs (1792), and, with his son Samuel (the younger), Antiphons in Six Books of Anthems (1818). Bert Polman

Jane Marshall

1924 - 2019 Person Name: Jane Marshall (b. 1924) Topics: Church Year Pentecost; Faith; Holy Spirit Fruit of; Holy Spirit gifts of; Hope; Love for God; Love for Others; Pentecost and the Work of the Holy Spirit Composer of "ANDERSON" in Ancient and Modern Jane Marshall, was born Jane Anne Manton in Dallas in 1924. She became a pianist and organist and composed music as a teenager. She earned a music degree in 1945 from SMU. She married Elbert Marshall. She went on to write more than 200 hymns and other sacred music works. She later earned a Masters degree in 1968 from SMU in choral conducting and composition. She taught at SMU's Perkins School of Theology and tis Church Music Summer School from 1975-2010. She attended Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas for many years, collaborated often with other hymn writers, and encouraged many students. Dianne Shapiro, from UM News article , May 30, 2019 by Sam Hodges (accessed 6-7-2019)

Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Topics: Church Year Pentecost; Discipleship; God Will of; Holy Spirit gifts of; Holy Spirit Invocation of; Pentecost and the Work of the Holy Spirit; Proper 21 Year B; Renewal; Wisdom Author of "Be present, Spirit of the Lord" in Ancient and Modern 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

Jacques Berthier

1923 - 1994 Topics: The Christian Year Pentecost; Choruses and Refrains; Creation; Holy Spirit Gifts; Holy Spirit Illumination; Holy Spirit Images; Holy Spirit Power; New Creation; Opening Hymns; Poverty; Work and Recreation; Baptism of Jesus Year B; Epiphany 2 Year C; Pentecost Year C; Pentecost Year C; Proper 25 Year C Adapter of "Come, Holy Spirit (Veni Sancte Spiritus)" in Voices United Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. Bert Polman

Christopher M. Idle

b. 1938 Person Name: Christopher Idle (b. 1938) Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; Church Worship; Church Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit Fruit of; Holy Spirit gifts of; Holy Spirit inspiration of; Pentecost and the Work of the Holy Spirit; Proper 8 Year C Author of "Spirit of holiness, wisdom and faithfulness" in Ancient and Modern Christopher Martin Idle (b. Bromley, Kent, England, 1938) was educated at Elthan College, St. Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College in Bristol, and was ordained in the Church of England. He served churches in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; London; and Oakley, Suffolk; and recently returned to London, where he is involved in various hymnal projects. A prolific author of articles on the Christian's public responsibilities, Idle has also published The Lion Book of Favorite Hymns (1980) and at least one hundred of his own hymns and biblical paraphrases. Some of his texts first appeared in hymnals published by the Jubilate Group, with which he is associated. He was also editor of Anglican Praise (1987). In 1998 Hope Publishing released Light Upon the River, a collection of 279 of his psalm and hymn texts, along with suggested tunes, scripture references, and commentary. Bert Polman

John Barnard

b. 1948 Person Name: John Barnard (b. 1948) Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; Church Worship; Church Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit Fruit of; Holy Spirit gifts of; Holy Spirit inspiration of; Pentecost and the Work of the Holy Spirit; Proper 8 Year C Arranger of "BLOW THE WIND SOUTHERLY" in Ancient and Modern

Stephen Langton

1160 - 1228 Person Name: Stephen Langton (d. 1228) Topics: Church Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit as Comforter; Holy Spirit gifts of; Holy Spirit Invocation of; Light; Pentecost and the Work of the Holy Spirit; Renewal Author of "Come, thou Holy Spirit, come" in Ancient and Modern Archbishop of Canterbury, 1207-1228

Francis Jackson

1917 - 2022 Person Name: Francis Jackson (b. 1917) Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in times and seasons; Our Response to God in times and seasons; Harvest; Holy Spirit gifts of; Love for others; Work and Leisure Composer of "EAST ACKLAM" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)