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Alec Wyton

1921 - 2007 Person Name: Alec Wyton (b. 1921) Scripture: Matthew 27:27-45 Composer of "INDIFFERENCE" in Wonder, Love, and Praise Alec Wyton is described in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, by saying, "Wyton has brought together and caused to flourish three separate traditions: English church music, American church music and music from outside the churches." Also bringing together clergy and musicians of the Episcopal Church, he was the Coordinator of the Standing Commission on Church Music from 1974 to 1985; he was Minister of Music at St. Stephen's Church, in Ridgefield, Conn., from 1987 until his appointment as Minister of Music Emeritus in 2004; and he was Founder and Chairman of the Church Music Department of the Manhattan School of Music. Wyton is the award-winning ASCAP composer of over 100 published works; editor of the Anglican Chant Psalter; contributor of articles to professional journals; performer, teacher and lecturer: he is the complete musician. From 1954 to 1974 he was Organist and Master of the Choristers at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Headmaster of the Cathedral Choir School. He taught at Union Theological Seminary in NYC and was Chairman of the Organ Department at Westminster Choir College, Princeton. Wyton was born in London in 1921. He earned degrees from the Royal Academy of Music and Oxford University. He came to the United States in 1950, working briefly in Dallas and St. Louis. Wyton died on March 18, 2007, after a prolonged illness. He has traveled throughout the US and Canada playing recitals, conducting workshops, master classes and hymn festivals stressing the coexistence in liturgy of great music and literature of the past with new and exciting works by artists of our time. --www.selahpub.com

John Karl Hirten

b. 1956 Scripture: Matthew 26:20 Composer of "ALEXANDRA" in Wonder, Love, and Praise A published composer of a wide range of liturgical, sacred and secular works, John Karl Hirten’s music has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Pipedreams program, at conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians. His hymn tunes have won awards and his choral music is also regularly performed in churches and concert venues around the world. Recent commissions include Inscriptions, a piece for orchestra and chorus, A complete Evening Service (using the Anglican Prayer Book), and a setting of the chorale "Ein feste Burg" in minimalist style. John Karl Hirten has a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied with Paul-Martin Maki and Frederick Swann. Before that, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Classical Languages from Fordham University. He has performed organ recitals in venues throughout the country and in Europe. In 2006, he was a finalist in the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988, he has performed at virtually all the major venues in the Bay Area. From 1989 until 2016, he played monthly recitals at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor on the historic E. M. Skinner organ there (well over 300 recitals). He has performed regularly at such series as Noontime Concerts, Music at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Grace Cathedral, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, and elsewhere. In connection with the San Francisco Opera’s 2002 production of Messiaen’s Saint Françoise d’Assise, he performed a recital of the composer’s music at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco. He has also appeared as organist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Oakland Ballet, the Berkeley Symphony, American Bach Soloists, and others. He was previously Director of Parish Music at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, and is currently Director of Music at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ross, California. John Karl Hirten

Eduard Kremser

1838 - 1914 Scripture: Matthew 26:26-30 Harmonizer of "KREMSER" in Songs of Grace Eduard Kremser was born 10 October 1838 in Vienna and died 26 November 1914 in Vienna. He was a choir director, conductor, composer and musicologist. He was the arranger of the music for male voices in Sechs altniederländische Volkslieder, a collection of six Dutch folk songs from Adriaan Valerius' collection Nederlandtsche gedenck-clanck. From this collection comes the tune which is named after him and is sung with the English text "We Gather Together." He also edited and arranged a 3 volume set of German and Austrian folk music: Wiener Lieder und Tänze: im Auftrage der Gemeindevertretimg der Stadt Wien (published 1912-1925) as well as other volumes of folk music. Dianne Shapiro

Emma Lou Diemer

b. 1927 Person Name: Emma Lau Diemer Scripture: Matthew 26:39 Composer of "MAUNDY THURSDAY" in The New Century Hymnal

James Wood

1921 - 2003 Person Name: James H. Wood Scripture: Matthew 26:26-30 Harmonizer of "BEACH SPRING" in Glory to God James Wood was born April 14, 1921, in Rochester, Minn. He was a teacher of music and a concert singer, a choral conductor and composer In later life, he published a book of poems titled, "Songs Without Melodies." Dianne Shapiro

Michael Corzine

Scripture: Matthew 26:26-30 Composer of "COPELAND" in Glory to God

Charles Albert Tindley

1851 - 1933 Person Name: Charles A. Tindley, 1851-1933 Scripture: Matthew 26:26-29 Composer of "BY AND BY" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Charles Albert Tindley was born in Berlin, Maryland, July 7, 1851; son of Charles and Hester Tindley. His father was a slave, and his mother was free. Hester died when he was very young; he was taken in my his mother’s sister Caroline Miller Robbins in order to keep his freedom. It seems that he was expected to work to help the family. In his Book of Sermons (1932), he speaks of being “hired out” as a young boy, “wherever father could place me.” He married Daisy Henry when he was seventeen. Together they had eight children, some of whom would later assist him with the publication of his hymns. Tindley was largely self-taught throughout his lifetime. He learned to read mostly on his own. After he and Daisy moved to Philadelphia in 1875, he took correspondence courses toward becoming a Methodist minister. He did this while working as a sexton (building caretaker) for the East Bainbridge Street Church. Beginning in 1885, he was appointed by the local bishop to serve two or three-year terms at a series of churches, until coming full circle to become pastor at East Bainbridge in 1902. Under his leadership, the church grew rapidly. They relocated in 1904 to the East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, then again in 1924 to the new Tindley Temple, where the membership roll blossomed to about ten thousand. Tindley was known for being a captivating preacher, and for also taking an active role in the betterment of the people in his community. His songs were an outgrowth of his preaching ministry, often introduced during his sermons. Tindley was able to draw people of multiple races to his church ministry; likewise, his songs have been adopted and proliferated by white and black churches alike. The songs of Charles Tindley were published cumulatively in two editions of Soul Echoes (1905, 1909) and six editions of New Songs of Paradise (1916-1941). His wife Daisy died in 1924, before the completion of the Tindley Temple. He remarried in 1927 to Jenny Cotton. Charles A. Tindley died July 26, 1933.

John McKinstry

Scripture: Matthew 27:46 Composer of "[My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?]" in Worship in Song

Heinrich Isaac

1450 - 1517 Person Name: Heinrich Isaac, c. 1450-1517 Scripture: Matthew 26:65-75 Composer (attributed to) of "O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN" in Together in Song Heinrich Isaac; b. about 1450, Germany; organist in Florence, Italy; supposed to have died there abour 1517 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

William G. Tomer

1833 - 1896 Person Name: W. G. Tomer, 1832-1896 Scripture: Matthew 26:29-30 Composer of "GOD BE WITH YOU" in Hymns of the Saints Born: October 5, 1833, New Jersey. Died: September 26, 1896, New Jersey. Buried: Union Cemetery, Finesville, New Jersey. Tomer studied singing and sang in the choir in Finesville, New Jersey, and began teaching school at age 17. He served in the Union army during the American civil war, then worked as a clerk in Washington, DC, served as music director for Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, and taught school in New Carpentersville and Greenwich, New Jersey. He was living in Greenwich as of 1880. --www.cyberhymnal.org/