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Everett M. Stowe

1897 - 1997 Topics: Adversity Translator of "Here, O Lord, Your Servants Gather" in Community of Christ Sings

b. 1931 Person Name: Joy F. Patterson, 1931- Topics: Adversity Author of "When Senseless Violence" in Community of Christ Sings Joy F. Patterson (b. 1931), of Wassau, Wisconsin, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church who has written many texts and tunes; twenty-nine are collected in Come, You People of the Promise (Hope Publishing, Co., 1994); another collection, Teach Our Eyes New Ways of Seeing, was published in 2005 (Selah). Patterson has enjoyed a varied career as a French professor, homemaker, and claim representative for the Social Security Administration. Sing! A New Creation

David Jenkins

1848 - 1915 Person Name: David Jenkins, 1849-1915 Topics: Adversity Composer of "PENLAN" in Together in Song Born: December 30, 1848, Trecastle, Breconshire, Wales. Died: December 10, 1915, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. Buried: Trecastle, Breconshire, Wales. Professor David Jenkins (1848 - 1915) was a Welsh composer born at Trecastle, Brecknockshire, Wales. Originally apprenticed to the tailoring trade, he joined the Tonic Solfa choral movement and in 1874 enrolled at Aberystwyth College and studied under the renowned composer Joseph Parry, the first Professor of Music there. Jenkins received his Mus. Bac. from Cambridge in 1878. In 1893, he was appointed lecturer in the newly-formed Music Department of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was appointed Professor in 1910, a post he held until his death. He was a prominent figure in the musical life of Wales, judging at the National Eisteddfod and provincial eisteddfodau, and conducting at cymanfaoedd (hymn-singing festivals). He was a prolific composer; his best-known choral works are Arch y Cyfamod, Job, Yr Ystorm and The Psalm of Life, which was written for the Cardiff Triennial Festival in 1895, and was first premiered by two thousand singers at the Crystal Palace, London, on July 1896. He was also an editor of Y Cerddor. He died in Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth. --www.hymnswithoutwords.com

Thomas A. Jackson

b. 1931 Topics: Adversity Author of "For Such a Time As This" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal As of 2008, Jackson was a Professor Emeritus at Campbell University, North Carolina. --www.hymntime.com/tch

George Smart

1776 - 1867 Person Name: George Thomas Smart, 1776-1867 Topics: Adversity Composer of "WILTSHIRE" in Together in Song

Isao Koizumi

1907 - 1992 Person Name: Isao Koizumi, 1907-1992 Topics: Adversity Composer of "TOKYO" in Community of Christ Sings Isao Koizumi (b. 1907; d. 1992) graduated from the Osaka University of Commerce in 1932. For the next ten years he taught at that school, was an organist in Tokyo, and then went on to work in the import-export business. He has served as the conductor of the Tokyo Choral Society and edited various hymnals, including　The Hymnal　1954 for the United Church of Christ in Japan,　The Sunday School Hymnal　(1954), and Hymns of Praise　(1967 edition). A writer and translator of books and articles on church music, Koizumi has also composed and arranged hymn tunes. He is considered a leading figure in modern Japanese hymnody. Bert Polman

David Schubert

b. 1942 Person Name: David Arthur Schubert, 1942- Topics: Adversity Translator of "In you is gladness" in Together in Song

Alfred M. Smith

1879 - 1971 Person Name: Alfred Morton Smith, 1879-1971 Topics: Adversity Composer of "SURSUM CORDA" in Community of Christ Sings Alfred Morton Smith (1879-1971) was born in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1901) and Philadelphia Divinity School (B.D. 1905; S.T.B. 1911). An Episcopalian, Smith was ordained a deacon (1905) and a priest (1906). After a short time in Philadelphia and Long Beach, California, he served at St. Matthias Church, Los Angeles, for ten years. He was a chaplain in the U.S. Army during World War I, returning to Philadelphia in 1919, where he spent the remainder of his career. He retired in 1955. In 1963, Smith moved to Drium Moir, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and in 1968 to Brigantine, New Jersey, where he remained until his death. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Martin Gotthard Schneider

1930 - 2017 Person Name: Martin Gotthard Schneider, 1930- Topics: Adversity Author of "Thank you for giving me the morning" in Together in Song