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Evelyn Simpson-Curenton

b. 1953 Person Name: Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, b. 1953 Meter: 11.9.11.7 with refrain Arranger of "LIFT HIM UP" in African American Heritage Hymnal Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist. Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University. She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild of Organists, George Shirley, the late Duke Ellington, and her sister, the late Joy Simpson, arranged music for Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and the Porgy and Bess Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with musical organizations such as Philadelphia's National Opera Ebony (later renamed Opera North). Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Curenton is Music Director of the Washington Performing Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel and an associate of the Smithsonian Institution. She has given lectures and participated in workshops on early 18th-century black religious music and the music of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era. --en.wikipedia.org

Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Person Name: Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1856-1922 Meter: 11.9.11.7 with refrain Author of "Lift Him Up" in African American Heritage Hymnal Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

Nolan Williams

Person Name: Nolan Williams, Jr. b. 1969 Meter: 11.9.11.7 with refrain Arranger of "LIFT HIM UP" in African American Heritage Hymnal

Robert J. Fryson

Person Name: Dr. Robert J. Fryson Meter: 11.9.11.7 with refrain Arranger of "LIFT HIM UP" in African American Heritage Hymnal

Charles Albert Tindley

1851 - 1933 Person Name: Charles A. Tindley, 1851-1933 Meter: 11.9.11.7 with refrain Author of "Heaven's Christmas Tree" in African American Heritage Hymnal Charles Albert Tindley was born in Berlin, Maryland, July 7, 1851; son of Charles and Hester Tindley. His father was a slave, and his mother was free. Hester died when he was very young; he was taken in my his mother’s sister Caroline Miller Robbins in order to keep his freedom. It seems that he was expected to work to help the family. In his Book of Sermons (1932), he speaks of being “hired out” as a young boy, “wherever father could place me.” He married Daisy Henry when he was seventeen. Together they had eight children, some of whom would later assist him with the publication of his hymns. Tindley was largely self-taught throughout his lifetime. He learned to read mostly on his own. After he and Daisy moved to Philadelphia in 1875, he took correspondence courses toward becoming a Methodist minister. He did this while working as a sexton (building caretaker) for the East Bainbridge Street Church. Beginning in 1885, he was appointed by the local bishop to serve two or three-year terms at a series of churches, until coming full circle to become pastor at East Bainbridge in 1902. Under his leadership, the church grew rapidly. They relocated in 1904 to the East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, then again in 1924 to the new Tindley Temple, where the membership roll blossomed to about ten thousand. Tindley was known for being a captivating preacher, and for also taking an active role in the betterment of the people in his community. His songs were an outgrowth of his preaching ministry, often introduced during his sermons. Tindley was able to draw people of multiple races to his church ministry; likewise, his songs have been adopted and proliferated by white and black churches alike. The songs of Charles Tindley were published cumulatively in two editions of Soul Echoes (1905, 1909) and six editions of New Songs of Paradise (1916-1941). His wife Daisy died in 1924, before the completion of the Tindley Temple. He remarried in 1927 to Jenny Cotton. Charles A. Tindley died July 26, 1933.

B. B. Beall

1874 - 1945 Meter: 11.9.11.7 with refrain Composer of "LIFT HIM UP" in African American Heritage Hymnal Benjamin Burke (B. B.) Beall, was born on May 25, 1874, Dallas, Georgia. Benjamin graduated in music and elocution from the Texas Musical Institute. He ran the B. B. Beall publishing company in Douglasville, Georgia. He died on October 7, 1945, in Douglasville, Georgia. Some of his publications: Bright Beautiful Bells (Birmingham, Alabama: B. B. Beal & Company, 1900) Gems for the Sunday Schools (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1902) Lasting Songs, B. B. Beall et al (Douglasville, Georgia: B. B. Beall & Company, 1910) NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.hymntime.com/tch/

Charles A. Tindley, Jr.

Meter: 11.9.11.7 with refrain Arranger of "HEAVEN'S CHRISTMAS TREE" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Son of Charles Albert Tindley. Charles Albert Tindley, Jr., arranged some of his father's hymns.

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