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Jacques Berthier

1923 - 1994 Person Name: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Scripture: Psalm 118 Composer of "[Confitemini Domino]" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New 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

Louis Bourgeois

1510 - 1561 Person Name: L. Bourgeois Scripture: Psalm 118 Composer of "EXALTATION " in The New Christian Hymnal Louis Bourgeois (b. Paris, France, c. 1510; d. Paris, 1561). In both his early and later years Bourgeois wrote French songs to entertain the rich, but in the history of church music he is known especially for his contribution to the Genevan Psalter. Apparently moving to Geneva in 1541, the same year John Calvin returned to Geneva from Strasbourg, Bourgeois served as cantor and master of the choristers at both St. Pierre and St. Gervais, which is to say he was music director there under the pastoral leadership of Calvin. Bourgeois used the choristers to teach the new psalm tunes to the congregation. The extent of Bourgeois's involvement in the Genevan Psalter is a matter of scholarly debate. Calvin had published several partial psalters, including one in Strasbourg in 1539 and another in Geneva in 1542, with melodies by unknown composers. In 1551 another French psalter appeared in Geneva, Eighty-three Psalms of David, with texts by Marot and de Beze, and with most of the melodies by Bourgeois, who supplied thirty four original tunes and thirty-six revisions of older tunes. This edition was republished repeatedly, and later Bourgeois's tunes were incorporated into the complete Genevan Psalter (1562). However, his revision of some older tunes was not uniformly appreciated by those who were familiar with the original versions; he was actually imprisoned overnight for some of his musical arrangements but freed after Calvin's intervention. In addition to his contribution to the 1551 Psalter, Bourgeois produced a four-part harmonization of fifty psalms, published in Lyons (1547, enlarged 1554), and wrote a textbook on singing and sight-reading, La Droit Chemin de Musique (1550). He left Geneva in 1552 and lived in Lyons and Paris for the remainder of his life. Bert Polman

Mary Louise Bringle

b. 1953 Person Name: Mary Louise Bringle, n. 1953 Scripture: Psalm 118 Translator of "Éste Es el Día (This Is the Day)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Herbert Brokering

1926 - 2009 Person Name: Herbert F. Brokering, 1926-2009 Scripture: Psalm 118 Author of "Psalm 118:14-24 (A Paraphrase for Easter)" in Psalms for All Seasons Herbert F. Brokering (b. Beatrice, Nebraska, May 21, 1926; d. Bloomington, Minnesota, November 7, 2009) was a Lutheran pastor with German roots, an author of more than forty books, and a poet and hymn writer known especially for two hymn texts, “Earth and All Stars” and “Alleluia! Christ Is Risen,” both set to the same tune. He was born in Nebraska, the son of a German Lutheran pastor; earned degrees from Wartburg College in Iowa, University of Iowa, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH, and pursued graduate study in Germany at the University of Kiel and the University of Erlangen. He served as a pastor of three Lutheran congregations, in Pennsylvania, New York, and Texas; taught at the Navy Chaplain’s Career School in Newport, Rhode Island, Luther Seminary and Trinity Seminary, and was also active in the Lutheran World Federation services and the World Council of Churches. Emily Brink

Elsie Byler-Burkhard

1883 - 1957 Person Name: Elsie Byler Scripture: Psalm 118:1 Author of "God is Good" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Born: April 2, 1883, West Liberty, Ohio. Died: July 25, 1958, Tempe, Arizona. Buried: Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Arizona. Daughter of Eli Hertzler Byler & Mary Ann Yoder, Elsie married Samuel Burkhard in August 1913 (possibly in Nebraska, where he was born). In 1920 they were living in Putnam County, Ohio. Elsie taught school for an unknown length of time. Walter Yoder was her cousin. Sources: Findagrave, accessed 20 Nov 2016 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Sylvia Bontrager

Scripture: Psalm 118:1 Composer of "[O Thou, the great eternal One]" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite

James Hart Brumm

b. 1962 Person Name: James Hart Brumm, b. 1962 Scripture: Psalm 118 Author of "Psalm 118:19-29 (A Responsorial Setting)" in Psalms for All Seasons

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Scripture: Psalm 118 Author of "Praise God for This Holy Ground" in More Voices John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

Laurence Bévenot

1901 - 1990 Person Name: LB Scripture: Psalm 118 Composer (Psalm tone) of "[Give thanks to the Lord for he is good]" in Worship (3rd ed.)

Kathleen Boschetti

Person Name: KB Scripture: Psalm 118 Composer of "[Give thanks to the Lord for he is good]" in Catholic Book of Worship III Sister Kathleen Boschetti - Australian church music composer