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Felipe Blycker-J

Person Name: Felipe Blycker J. Topics: Apertura del Culto; Opening of Worship; Confianza; Confianza; Confidence; Confidence; Conflicto y Victoria; Conflict and Victory; Esperanza; Hope; Majestad Divina; Divine Majesty; Poder Divino; Divine Power; Valor Cristiano; Christian Courage Composer of "MI LUZ Y SALVACION" in Celebremos Su Gloria Spanish name used by Phillip W. Blycker. See also Blycker, Philip W. (Philip Walter), 1939-2023

Leonard E. Smith

b. 1942 Person Name: Leonard E. Smith (1942- ) Topics: Dios el Padre Majestad y poder de Dios Author of "¡Nuestro Dios reina!" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día Leonard Earl ‘Lenny’ Smith, Jr USA 1942-present. Born at Philadelphia, PA, the son of a career Marine Corp father and Catholic mother. The family moved around frequently due to his father’s transfers. They lived in PA, VA, CA, NC, Guam, and finally NJ. He was raised Protestant, though his mother was a devout Catholic. She would drop the children off at a Protestant church at the insistence of her non-religious husband, then attend her own church. When Smith was 12, his father left the family, he then attended the Catholic church with his mother. He wished to prepare for the priesthood and in 1960 studied at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary, Menominee, MI, then at Mt St Paul Seminary, Waukesha, WI. and Mt St Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, MD, where, in 1965, he started writing songs for the guitar masses introduced there. In 1967 he left the seminary, but lead mass at different Catholic churches. He then attended at Augustinian Catholic Villanova University, Villanova, PA. In 1968, over the course of five years, he was a teacher for three Catholic high schools and one public school. After his first year at a high school in Haddon Township, NJ, he was dismissed, due to a ‘strained relationship’ with the principal over a student being abused by another teacher, and he reporting it. The next year he taught at Gloucester Catholic HS, Gloucester, NJ, and had a good year there. Smith married Marian Wehrle, and they had five children: Daniel, Rachel, Megan, David, and Andrew. He and wife Marian became involved in the Catholic Charismatic Movement, that included expressive dancing, and speaking in tongues. In 1970 they attended a Protestant Charismatic church in Philadelphia called The Gospel Temple. For two years Smith lead similar worship at an off-shoot church in NJ, called the Living Word Community, but resigned over concerns about the church’s doctrine of ‘shepherding’. The next year he wished to teach at a public school and taught Latin and English at Cinnaminson HS, Cinnaminson, NJ. During this time, he became involved with the Charismatic Movements and had a dramatic spiritual awakening. He decided to teach his regular coursework Monday-Thursday and teach Bible on Fridays, though many students were Jewish. Parental complaints resulted in his being let go at the end of the school year. In 1970 he returned to Gloucester Catholic HS teaching religion. Along with standard curriculum, he brought his guitar to class, sang, prayed, and read the Bible. He held a once-a-month prayer gathering in town for his students. The priests there were worried that he was starting a cult, and at year-end he was let go. He then took on carpentry and house painting work to support the family. In 1972 he started teaching religion at Bishop Eustace Prep School, Cherry Hill, NJ. He continued bringing his guitar to class and leading mass in the chapel. The head of the religion department refused to let him teach that Jesus was the only Messiah, wanting him to teach that there were many Messiahs, like Martin Luther king, and Mahatma Gandhi. When Smith refused, he was forced to resign. He returned to house painting, and eventually remodeling and building houses. For the next 35 years he worked on houses by day and wrote songs at night, and lead worship in various churches on Sundays. Depressed and without work in 1973, he read Isaiah 52:7 and wrote the gospel song ‘Our God Reigns’. A traveling evangelist, Bob Mumford, heard Smith sing his song at church and loved it. Mumford taught it at each church and conference he visited all over the world during the next couple of years. An Australian Company, Scripture in Song, released a songbook in 1979 with two of Smith’s songs in it, and a Catholic Prayer community in Ann Arbor, MI, also released a songbook and album, after which world-wide attention was brought to his songs, ‘Our God Reigns’ was embraced and used by Protestant and Catholic denominations around the world. It was a favorite of Pope John Paul II, and was used during his North and South American visits in 1999. Pope Benedict XVI heard it sung at his papal mass at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland in 2010. Smith was involved with both Catholic and Protestant Charismatics and Pentecostals because both groups had interest in the same things. His home church became the Gospel Temple of Philadelphia. A singer, songwriter, and music publisher of pop, gospel, folk, and contemporary Christian music, Smith, now retired, still works on his music for his publishing company, Great Comfort Records, Clarksboro, NJ. His son, Daniel also started a recording label titled: Sounds Familyre Records, and eldest daughter, Rachel, writes and records worship music on Smith’s record label. John Perry

Richard Hillert

1923 - 2010 Person Name: Richard Hillert, 1923-2010 Topics: Majestad y Poder Composer of "FESTIVAL CANTICLE" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Richard Hillert was born in Granton, Clark County, Wis., on March 14, 1923. There he attended parochial and public schools and later enrolled at Concordia Teachers College (now Concordia University Chicago), River Forest, where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in Education. He served as teacher and music director for parishes in St. Louis, Mo., Wausau, Wis., and Chicago and Westchester, Ill. He received both the Master of Music and the Doctor of Music degrees in composition from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. His teachers included Matthew Nathaniel Lundquist, Anthony Donato, Alan Stout, Arrand Parsons, Emil Nolte, and John Ohl. He studied composition with the Italian composer, Goffredo Petrassi, at Aaron Copland’s Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, Mass. Richard Hillert was a noted Lutheran composer. He was Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Ill. He was best known for his work as a composer and teacher of composition. Among his most frequently performed liturgical works for congregation is Worthy Is Christ, with its antiphon, “This is the Feast of Victory” which was written as an alternate Song of Praise for inclusion in Setting One of the Holy Communion in Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and Lutheran Worship (1982). "This is the Feast" is now widely published in more than 20 recent worship books of many denominations, most recently in Lutheran Service Book (2006) and Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006). Other major liturgical works include a setting of Evening Prayer (1984) and a Eucharistic Festival Liturgy (1983), which was first performed at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. He wrote liturgical pieces and hymns and served as music editor for Worship Supplement(1969) and Lutheran Book of Worship (1978). His compositions and publications include an array of pieces of liturgical music for congregation, choral motets, hymns and hymn anthems, psalm settings and organ works, concertatos, and cantatas, including settings of The Christmas Story According to Saint Luke and The Passion According to Saint John. He edited eleven volumes of the Concordia Hymn Prelude Series. Hillert's career as Professor of Music at Concordia (now Concordia University Chicago) spanned four decades, from 1959 to 1993. During this time he taught classes in music theory and composition, music literature, 20th century music, orchestration, keyboard instruction, comparative arts and liturgical worship. He served in various capacities in the music department, as chair in 1964-65 and from 1986–89, as coordinator of the Master of Church Music program, and as associate editor of the journal Church Music (1966–80). Non-liturgical compositions include symphonic works for orchestra (Symphony in Three Movements, Variations for Orchestra, Suite for Strings), chamber works for small orchestra and ensembles (Alternations for Seven Instruments, Divertimento I and II) as well as many works for keyboard, instrumental solos and songs. The latter include Sonata for Piano (1961), a violin sonata, and two sonatas for flute and keyboard. Major organ works include Prelude and Toccata, Ricercata, Passacaglia on Innocent Sounds, Partita on Picardy, and Partita on Atkinson. There are also concert works with sacred texts, such as Five Canticles from the Exodus (1958), Te Deum for two pianos, percussion, and wind instruments (1962), The Alleluiatic Sequence (1980), and Seven Psalms of Grace for baritone solo and chamber orchestra (1998). Extended choral works, many written for Concordia’s Kapelle conducted by Thomas Gieschen, include the Cantata: "May God Bestow on Us His Grace" (1964), "Motet for the Day of Pentecost" for choir, vibraphone, and prepared electronic tape (written for the round-the-world tour in 1969), "Motet for the Time of Easter" for double choir, percussion, and harp (1971), and "Agnus Dei" for three choirs and percussion instruments (1974). Richard Hillert authored numerous scholarly articles and reviews for the periodicals such as Church Music, CrossAccent, and Currents in Theology and Mission, and other professional books and journals. He received an honorary Doctor of Sacred Music degree from Valparaiso University, and honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from Concordia University at Seward, Nebraska, and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He was an honorary life member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. His former students throughout the land have careers as practicing church musicians, elementary and secondary school teachers, teachers in higher education, music editors and publishers, and composers. Richard Hillert was married to Gloria Bonnin Hillert. They had three children: Kathryn Brewer, Virginia and Jonathan Hillert. --en.wikipedia.org

Sebastian L. Hernandez

1872 - 1948 Person Name: S. L. Hernández Topics: Dios el Padre Majestad y poder de Dios Vers. esp. of "Al Rey adorad" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

Wayne Hooper

1920 - 2007 Person Name: Wayne Hooper (1920-2007) Topics: Dios el Padre Majestad y poder de Dios Arranger of "THE ASH GROVE" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día Born: July 4, 1920, Little Rock, Arkansas. Died: February 28, 2007, at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. Hooper sang baritone with the King’s Quartet group for 18 years, and arranged and composed music for the group for 33 years. He taught music at the Portland (Oregon) Academy and Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska; served as musical director of the Voice of Prophecy broadcast; directed development and marketing for Hosanna House; did arranging and orchestration for Chapel Records; was musical co-editor of the 1985 Seventh-day Adventist hymnal; and co-authored the Companion to the SDA Hymnal. Andrews and La Sierra Universities awarded honorary doctor of music degrees to him. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Wilhelm Hey

1789 - 1854 Person Name: Johann Wilhelm Hey (1789-1854) Topics: Dios el Padre Majestad y poder de Dios Author of "¿Sabes cuántos?" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día Hey, Johann Wilhelm, son of H. A. Hey, pastor at Leina, near Gotha, was born at Leina, March 26, 1789. He studied at the Universities of Jena and Göttingen, became in 1811 licentiate in theology, and, after varied tutorial work, was appointed in 1818 pastor at Töttelstadt, near Gotha. In 1827 he became court preacher at Gotha, where his preaching attracted large audiences, but being regarded as a Pietist, was in 1832 appointed superintendent of Ichtershausen. He died at Ichtershausen, May 19, 1854 (Koch, vii. 262-266; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xii. 344-345; MS. from Pfarrer Ortlob of Leina). Hey's poems were mostly written for children. The best known are his Fabeln für Kinder, with illustrations by Otto Speckter, of which the first fifty appeared at Hamburg, 1833, the second fifty in 1837. Since then they have passed through a large number of editions in German, and have been several times translated into English. At the end of each series is a "Serious Appendix," containing religious and moral songs. The whole of these two Appendices have been translated into English as Hymns and Poems for Little Children. Translated from the German. London, 1853. Also in the Fifty Fables, 1867, and Other Fifty Fables, 1869, translated by Sophie Klingemann, and published by F. A. Perthes at Gotha. Very few of Hey's hymns are suited for Church use. Those which we have to note are:— I. Hymns for Church Use. i. Wenn auch vor deiner Thür eimnal. Christian Charity. First published in Knapp's Christoterpe, 1835, p. 68, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines, as the fifth hymn of a series on the words "Behold I stand at the door and knock," Rev. iii. 20. In Knapp's Evangelischer Lieder-Schatz, 1837, No. 2412 (1865, No. 2146), it was altered to "Christ! wenn die Armen manchesmal," and this form passed into the Württemberg Gesang-Buch 1842, and other recent collections. The only translation is, "Ah, Christian! if the needy poor," by Mrs. Findlater, in Hymns from the Land of Luther, 3rd Ser, 1858, p. 30 (1884, p. 152). ii. Wenn je du wieder zagst. Passiontide. On Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. First published in Severin Vater's Jahrbuch für häusliche Andacht, Gotha, 1824, p. 173, as No. 9 of the "Reminiscences of the sufferings of Jesus; for the Quiet Days of the week before Easter," in 9 stanzas of 8 lines, with the motto "Not my will, but Thine be done." Included in Bunsen's Versuch, 1833; Knapp's Evangelischer Lieder-Schatz, 1850 and 1865, &c. Translated as:— Whene'er again thou sinkest. A good and full translation by Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Germanica, 2nd Ser., 1858, p. 26, and repeated, abridged, in Psalms & Hymns, Bedford, 1864, and in Holy Song, 1869. II. Hymns for Children. All those to be noted appeared in the Appendix to the 2nd Series of his Fabeln für Kinder, Hamburg, 1837. iii. Alle Jahre wieder, kommt das Christus Kind. Christmas. 1837, p. 31, in 3 st. The translations are: (1) "The blessed feast of Christmas," in Hymns & Poems, 1853, p. 81. (2) "Every year that endeth," by Sophie Klingemann, 1869, p. 31. (3) "As each happy Christmas," by Mrs. H. K. Spaeth, as No. 33 in the Little Children's Book, Philadelphia, 1885. iv. Aus dem Himmel ferne. God our Father. 1837, p. 7, in 4 stanzas. The translations are: (1) "From the glorious heav'n above," in Hymns & Poems, 1853, p. 49. (2) "From the glorious heaven," by Mrs. Sevan, 1859, p. 139. (3) “From the angels' dwelling," in Dr. F. Silcher's Song Book for the Young, Nelson, 1868, No. 1. (4) "From His heaven above," by Sophie Klingemann, 1869, p. 7. (5) "From the far blue heaven," as No. 676, in the Tribute of Praise, Boston, U.S., 1873. v. Glöcklein klingt, Vöglein singt. Thanksgiving. 1837, p. 17 (in the ed. 1886, n.d., as part of Sonnentchein, Sternelein),in 5 stanzas. The translations are: (1) "The bells they ring, The birds they sing," in Hymns & Poems, 1853, p. 63. (2) "Bells do ring, birds do sing," in Silcher's Song Book, 1868, No. 9. (3) "Bells are ringing, Birds are singing," by Sophie Klingemann, 1869, p. 17. (4) "Church bells ring," by Mrs. H. R. Spaeth, in Little Children's Book 1885, No. 72. vi. Weisst du wie viel Sternlein stehen. God's care of His creatures. 1837, p. 20, in 3 stanzas. The translations are: (1) "Canst thou sum up each brilliant star." In Hymns & Poems, 1853, p. 67. (2) "How many stars are shining," by Mrs. Bevan, 1859, p. 144. (3) "Can you tell the countless number," by Sophie Klingemann, 1869, p. 20. (4) "Canst thou count the stars that twinkle," in the Rev. C. S. Bere's Children's Choral Book, 1869, p. 4, repeated as No. 425 in the Universal Hymn Book,1885. vii. Wen Jesus liebt Der kann allein. Love of Christ. 1837, p. 37, in 4 stanzas. The translations are: (1) "They who love Jesus alone can be gay," in Hymns & Poems, 1853, p. 90. (2) "The love of Christ makes ever glad," by Sophie Klingemann, 1869, p. 37. (3) "Whom Jesus loves," by Mrs. H. R. Spaeth, in Service & Hymns for Sunday Schools (Southern Lutheran), Philadelphia, 1883, p. 178. (4) "Whom Christ holds dear," by Prof. M. H. Richards, as No. 98 in the Little Children's Book, Philadelphia, 1885. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Person Name: George Lockwood, b. 1946 Topics: Majestad y Poder Translator of "Sing a New Song to the Lord (Un Nuevo Canto al Señor)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Walton J. Brown

1913 - 2001 Person Name: Walton J. Brown (1913-2001) Topics: Dios el Padre Majestad y poder de Dios Vers. esp. of "Señor, mi Dios" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día Used pseudonym Juan Marrón. Walton John Brown was the education director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide. He worked in the United States, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba. Dianne Shapiro from obituary

Tapu Moala

Topics: Apertura del Culto; Opening of Worship; Conflicto y Victoria; Conflict and Victory; Majestad Divina; Divine Majesty; Poder Divino; Divine Power; Presencia Divina; Divine Presence Composer of "THE LORD THY GOD" in Celebremos Su Gloria

Guillermo Cuéllar

b. 1955 Person Name: Guillermo Cuéllar, n. 1955 Topics: Majestad y Poder Author of "Santo, Santo, Santo (Holy, Holy, Holy)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song In the mid-1980s, composer Guillermo Cuéllar composed the folk mass La Misa Popular Salvadoreña as a result of a commission from Archbishop Oscar Romero. Romero was assassinated while celebrating mass in El Salvador. Cuéllar himself was forced into exile for ten years due to threats on his life. Sing! A New Creation