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Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Across the eastern hilltops gleam Refrain First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord is risen today Lyrics: 1 Across the eastern hilltops gleam The first bright rays of dawn; The sunlight dances in each beam, Upon this Easter morn. Refrain: Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord is risen today; Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord doth reign for aye. 2 The gates of death now stand ajar, For Jesus, Lord and King, No stone or seal His exit bar, While men and angels sing: [Refrain] 3 Now all His agony is past, His suffering and His pain, With glorious victory at last, Our Savior lives to reign. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Across the eastern hilltops gleam] Text Sources: Carols New and Carols Old by Charles L. Hutchins (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916); New York Herald before 1917

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[Across the eastern hilltops gleam]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. R. Fairlamb Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 56521 71223 17654 Used With Text: Across the Eastern Hilltops

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Across the Eastern Hilltops

Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #7915 First Line: Across the eastern hilltops gleam Refrain First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord is risen today Lyrics: 1 Across the eastern hilltops gleam The first bright rays of dawn; The sunlight dances in each beam, Upon this Easter morn. Refrain: Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord is risen today; Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord doth reign for aye. 2 The gates of death now stand ajar, For Jesus, Lord and King, No stone or seal His exit bar, While men and angels sing: [Refrain] 3 Now all His agony is past, His suffering and His pain, With glorious victory at last, Our Savior lives to reign. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Across the eastern hilltops gleam]

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia

Hymnal: Carols Old and Carols New #222 (1916) First Line: Across the Eastern hilltops gleam Topics: Easter Languages: English Tune Title: [Across the Eastern hilltops gleam]

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J. Remington Fairlamb

1838 - 1908 Person Name: J. R. Fairlamb Composer of "[Across the eastern hilltops gleam]" in The Cyber Hymnal Mr. J. Remington Fairlamb received his first musical instruction at the hands of his mother. Although he was exceedingly fond of his music, while very young he was more fond of “dreaming” than of “practicing” at the piano. But at the age of twelve the boy came across a copy of Spohr’s oratorio ”The Last Judgment,” which seems to have satisfied his craving and shaped his career. When fourteen years of age he obtained a position as organist of the Western Methodist church, the first of its denomination in Philadelphia to obtain an organ. He afterwards filled the same position in the Tabernacle Baptist Church and succeeded one of the best church musicians of that city as organist and choir master of the Clinton Street Presbyterian church. During his twentieth year Mr. Fairlamb went to Europe and studied first in Paris, the piano under Marmoutel, voice under Masset, and harmony under Danhauser; subsequently he continued his studies under Mabellin in Florence Italy. Returning to America about the outbreak of the Civil War, and being incapacitated for military service by defective eyesight, Mr. Fairlamb accepted the position of Musical Director of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C. Here he enjoyed the acquaintance of many notable people, including President and Mrs. Lincoln. Being appointed United States consul at Zurich in Switzerland by Mr. Lincoln, he returned to Europe and remained there four years. His compositions number about two hundred in all. His music is distinguishable by dramatic intensity and orchestral ideas. He has published a part of a romantic opera, “Valeri,” and a quartet opera, “Love’s Stratagem.” His songs published in “St. Nicholas Songs” and “Harper’s Young People,” are so simple, quaint and delicate that, says a prominent New York contralto, he would live had he composed nothing else, forever in these.” His “Cradle Song” is a worthy specimen of this style of composition. Mr. Fairlamb has charge of societies in Newburgh, Hudson and Catskill. from The World's Best Music: Famous Songs and Those who Made Them Famous, Volume 1 By Frederic Dean, Reginald De Koven, Gerrit Smith