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Anonymous

Person Name: Anonymous Meter: 11.11.12.12 Author of "Give Thanks" in Singing the Living Tradition In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Carolina Sandell

1823 - 1903 Person Name: Lina Sandell Meter: 11.11.12.12 Author of "Välsignad, min trofaste Herre" in Lutherförbundets Sångbok Caroline W. Sandell Berg (b. Froderyd, Sweden, 1832; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 1903), is better known as Lina Sandell, the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden." "Lina" Wilhelmina Sandell Berg was the daughter of a Lutheran pastor to whom she was very close; she wrote hymns partly to cope with the fact that she witnessed his tragic death by drowning. Many of her 650 hymns were used in the revival services of Carl O. Rosenius, and a number of them gained popularity particularly because of the musical settings written by gospel singer Oskar Ahnfelt. Jenny Lind, the famous Swedish soprano, underwrote the cost of publishing a collection of Ahnfelt's music, Andeliga Sänger (1850), which consisted mainly of Berg's hymn texts. Bert Polman

Ronald F. Krisman

Person Name: Ronald F. Krisman, b. 1946 Meter: 11.11.12.12 Translator (st. 3) of "Our Only Source of Unity (La Fuente de la Unidad)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Oscar Ahnfelt

1813 - 1882 Meter: 11.11.12.12 Composer of "[Välsignad, min trofaste Herre och Gud]" in Lutherförbundets Sångbok Oscar Ahnfelt (1813 -1882) was a Swedish singer and composer. He wrote the music for many of Lina Sandell’s hymns. A pietist, he raised some concern in the State-church, but his music was apparently so popular, King Karl XV gave him permission to play and sing in both of his kingdoms. Ahnfelt’s music has spread throughout the world; two of his best-known songs are “Children of the Heavenly Father” and “Day by Day.” Laura de Jong

Skinner Chávez-Melo

1944 - 1992 Person Name: Skinner Chávez-Melo, 1944-1992 Meter: 11.11.12.12 Arranger of "TAULÈ" in With One Voice Skinner Chavez-Melo, an organist, conductor and composer who was music director at the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan, died on Saturday at New York Downtown Hospital. He was 47 years old and lived in Manhattan. He died of spinal cancer, said his brother, Juan Francisco. Mr. Chavez-Melo was born in Mexico City, but completed his musical studies in the United States, receiving degrees at Eastern Nazarene College and the Union Theological Seminary, and pursuing further studies at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School. He toured internationally as an organist and conducted orchestras in Mexico, Brazil and the United States. As a composer, he wrote works for organ, choir and orchestra, and contributed hymn settings to several published hymnals, including those of the United Church of Christ and Yale University. He also lectured and presented workshops on Hispanic church music. Besides directing music at St. Rose, Mr. Chavez-Melo conducted the annual Singing Christmas Tree concerts at the South Street Seaport. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/28

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Person Name: George Lockwood, b. 1946 Meter: 11.11.12.12 Translator (sts. 1, 2, 4) of "Our Only Source of Unity (La Fuente de la Unidad)" 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

Madeleine Forell Marshall

b. 1946 Person Name: Madeleine Forell Marshall, b. 1946 Meter: 11.11.12.12 Translator of "All Earth is Hopeful" in With One Voice

Alberto Taulé

1932 - 2007 Person Name: Alberto Taulé, b. 1932 Meter: 11.11.12.12 Author of "All Earth is Hopeful" in With One Voice Alberto Taulé (b. Barcelona, Spain, 1932; d. March 24, 2007), a Roman Catholic priest and musician from the culturally distinctive and semi-autonomous Catalunya region of northeastern Spain. Sing! A New Creation

Tirso Vaquero

Meter: 11.11.12.12 Author of "All Earth Is Waiting" in Sing! A New Creation

Luis Olivieri

1937 - 2017 Person Name: Luis Olivieri, b. 1937 Meter: 11.11.12.12 Translator (sts. 1, 2, 4) of "Our Only Source of Unity (La Fuente de la Unidad)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Puerto Rico, University and Seminary Professor, Baptist Minister Sing a New Song No. 3 by Patrick Prescod (Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981)