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Rowland Hugh Prichard

1811 - 1887 Topics: Jesus Christ Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Christian Perfecction; Christian Year Advent; Compassion; Consummation; Conversion; Creation; Freedom; Funeral Vigil; Funerals and Memorial Services; God Adoration and Praise; God Love; God Presence; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Installation Services; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Love of; Jesus Christ Praise; Jesus Christ Presence; Jesus Christ Saviour; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Joy; Life; Love; Mercy; New Creation; Petition; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Purity; Recessionals; Salvation; Second Coming; Service Music Following Lord's Supper; Supplication; Surrender; Union With God/Christ; Weddings; Worship; Advent 2 Year A; Christmas 1 Year A; Lent 2 Year A; Easter 6 Year A; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 11 Year A; Proper 13 Year A; Proper 18 Year A; Reign of Christ Year A; Epiphany 6 Year B; Lent 4 Year B; Holy Thursday Year B; Easter 5 Year B; Easter 6 Year B; Proper 6 Year B; Proper 7 Year B; Proper 11 Year B; Proper 16 Year B; Proper 27 Year B; Reign of Christ Year B; Advent 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C; Epiphany 9 Year C; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year C; Lent 4 Year C; Easter 5 Year C; Pentecost Year C; Proper 5 Year C; Proper 6 Year C; Ash Wednesday Year ABC Composer of "HYFRYDOL" in Voices United Rowland H. Prichard (sometimes spelled Pritchard) (b. Graienyn, near Bala, Merionetshire, Wales, 1811; d. Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, 1887) was a textile worker and an amateur musician. He had a good singing voice and was appointed precentor in Graienyn. Many of his tunes were published in Welsh periodicals. In 1880 Prichard became a loom tender's assistant at the Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Company in Holywell. Bert Polman

James V. Marchionda

Topics: Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 7-13 Author of "Psalm 33 (A Responsorial Setting)" in Psalms for All Seasons

Robert A. Hobby

b. 1962 Person Name: Robert Hobby Topics: Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 7-13 Composer of "[Out of Zion, perfect in beauty]" in Psalms for All Seasons Robert A. Hobby currently serves as Director of Music for Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his responsibilities include playing for many of the worship services, overseeing the graded choral program, and managing the concerts the church offers. Numerous activities during his tenure include Trinity Church establishing a choral series with seventeen composers commissioned thus far, hosting a regional convention of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, producing four recordings, and expanding the opportunities for music ministry. Mr. Hobby received his Bachelor's Degree in Church Music from Wittenberg University in 1985 and a Master's Degree in Organ Performance from the University of Notre Dame in 1987. His organ teachers have included Darwin Leitz, Kirby and Kristi Koriath, Donald Busarow, and Craig Cramer. His private study in composition has been under Donald Busarow and Richard Hillert. He has had private coaching in improvisation with Paul Manz and compositional coaching from English composer, Andrew Carter. To date, most of his composition time has been spent writing commissions for churches and organizations throughout the country. Over 150 of Mr. Hobby?s compositions are in print with Augsburg Fortress Publishing House, Choristers Guild, Concordia Publishing House, G.I.A. Publishers, MorningStar Music Publishers, Northwestern Publishers, Pavane Publishing Co., and Warner Brothers Publishers. His music has been heard on nationally syndicated radio programs such as The Lutheran Hour, Pipe Dreams, and Sing for Joy. A representation of his writing for organ, choral, and instrumental forces can be found on Thine Is the Glory, a recording produced by MorningStar Publishers. In 2006, Mr. Hobby premiered a major work of his entitled "The Good Shepherd" which is scored for tenor solo, adult and children's choirs, and orchestra; it is published with MorningStar Music Publishers. His compositions are present in two hymnals: Evangelical Lutheran Worship and Lutheran Service Book. As a performer and clinician, Mr. Hobby keeps an active schedule throughout the United States. He has played for the national conventions of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, Organ Historical Society, and National Pastoral Musicians, and he has played for both national and regional conventions of the Association of the Lutheran Church Musicians and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has been a featured artist with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, performing Poulenc's Organ Concerto and Haydn's Organ Concerto #2 in C. In 2005, he conducted the premiere performance of Andrew Carter's Concerto in C for organ and orchestra with David Higgs at the organ. In addition, his workshops for both regional conventions and individual chapter meetings of the American Guild of Organists and other similar organizations have gathered wide acclaim. Mr. Hobby is a member of a number of professional music organizations and has held a variety of leadership positions. For several years he chaired Young Lutherans Sing, a national summer choral program for children, sponsored by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. In 1996, he designed and coordinated a hymn festival that was performed simultaneously at 100 sites around the United States and Canada to commemorate the 10th anniversary of ALCM. He has also served as Dean of the Fort Wayne American Guild of Organists and as a member of the Program Committee for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Mr. Hobby and his wife, Jennifer, are the proud parents of three daughters: Hannah, Lydia, and Elizabeth. --www.morningstarmusic.com/

Janet Wootton

b. 1952 Topics: The Christian Year Pentecost; Arts and Literature; Holy Spirit Images; Easter 7 Year C; Pentecost Year C Translator of "Creative Spirit, Come to Us" in Voices United

Laura Kutscher

Topics: Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 7-13 Arranger of "[Happy the people]" in Psalms for All Seasons

Robert Bridges

1844 - 1930 Person Name: R. Bridges (1844-1930) Topics: Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way Adapter of "Happy are they, they who love God" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Robert S. Bridges (b. Walmer, Kent, England, 1844; d. Boar's Hill, Abingdon, Berkshire, England, 1930) In a modern listing of important poets Bridges' name is often omitted, but in his generation he was considered a great poet and fine scholar. He studied medicine and practiced as a physician until 1881, when he moved to the village of Yattendon. He had already written some poetry, but after 1881 his literary career became a full-time occupation, and in 1913 he was awarded the position of poet laureate in England. Bridges published The Yattendon Hymnal (1899), a collection of one hundred hymns (forty-four written or translated by him with settings mainly from the Genevan psalter, arranged for unaccompanied singing. In addition to volumes of poetry, Bridges also published A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing (1899) and About Hymns (1911). Bert Polman =================== Bridges, Robert Seymour, M.A., son of J. J. Bridges, of Walmer, Kent, was b. Oct. 23, 1844, and educated at Eton and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1867, M.A. 1874). He took his M.A. in 1874, but retired from practice in 1882, and now (1906) resides at Yattendon, Berks. He is the author of many poems and plays. He edition and contributed to the Yattendon Hymnal, 1899 (originally printed at the Oxford Univ. Press in parts—Nos. 1-25, 1895; 26-50, 1897; 51-75, 1898; 76-100, 1899). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Michael Baughen

b. 1930 Topics: Holy Spirit Praise and Invocation; Calmness and Serenity; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Pentecost; Commitment; Discipleship and Service; Holy Communion; Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit Presence; Holy Spirit Work; Ordination; Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity; Prayer; Regeneration; Service Music Invitation to Prayer; Service Music Litany Prayer; Unity; Epiphany 5 Year A; Epiphany 6 Year A; Easter 6 Year A; Epiphany 8 Year B; Pentecost Year B; Lent 3 Year C; Easter 5 Year C; Easter 7 Year C; Trinity Sunday Year C; Proper 8 Year C; Proper 18 Year C Author (v. 2) of "Spirit of the Living God" in Voices United

Saint Cyprian

205 - 258 Person Name: Cyprian of Carthage Topics: Church in the World Discipleship: Witness; Light; Unity; Witness; Advent 1 Year A; Epiphany Year A; Pentecost Year A; Proper 16 Year A; Epiphany Year B; Epiphany 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C; Proper 7 Year C Author of "Many Are the Lightbeams" in Voices United

Len Lythgoe

Topics: Church in the World Discipleship: Witness; Light; Unity; Witness; Advent 1 Year A; Epiphany Year A; Pentecost Year A; Proper 16 Year A; Epiphany Year B; Epiphany 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C; Proper 7 Year C Arranger of "LAGORNA ÄR MANGA" in Voices United

Gustav Holst

1874 - 1934 Person Name: G. T. Holst (1874-1934) Topics: Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way Arranger of "PERSONENT HODIE" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Gustav Holst (b. Chelteham, Gloucestershire, England, September 21, 1874, d. London, England, May 25, 1934) was a renowned British composer and musician. Having studied at Cheltenham Grammar School, he soon obtained a professional position as an organist, and later as choirmaster. In 1892, Holst composed a two-act operetta, which so impressed his father that he borrowed the money to send Holst to the Royal College of Music. Severe neuritis in his right hand later caused him to give up the keyboard, and Holst turned to the trombone and composing. In 1895 Holst met Ralph Vaughan Williams, and the two became lifelong friends. Vaughan Williams helped Holst land his first job as a singing teacher. Holst became very interested in Indian and Hindu culture, and composed a number of operas translated from Sanksrit myths. These were not received well in England, however. Holst is best known for his composition, The Planets, as well as