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Little Children's Song
Author: William Kibbey Appears in 6 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Little beams of brightness, Little gems of love
Little Children's Song
[Little beams of brightness]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. J. Showalter Hymnal Title: Buds and Blossoms for the Little Ones Incipit: 51321 56713 23332 Used With Text: Little Children's Song
[Little beams of brightness]
[Little beams of brightness]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Hymnal Title: Singing on the Way Incipit: 33321 52212 33332 Used With Text: Little Beams of Brightness
[Little beams of brightness]
Little Children's Song
Hymnal: Buds and Blossoms for the Little Ones #13 (1889) Hymnal Title: Buds and Blossoms for the Little Ones First Line: Little beams of brightness Languages: English Tune Title: [Little beams of brightness]
Little Children's Song
Little beams of brightness
Author: Anthony J. Showalter Hymnal: Favorite Songs #d51 (1907) Hymnal Title: Favorite Songs Languages: English
Little beams of brightness
Little Children's Song
Hymnal: Hours of Singing #27 (1882) Hymnal Title: Hours of Singing First Line: Little beams of brightness Languages: English Tune Title: [Little beams of brightness]
Little Children's Song
A. J. Showalter
1858 - 1924 Hymnal Title: Buds and Blossoms for the Little Ones Composer of "[Little beams of brightness]" in Buds and Blossoms for the Little Ones Anthony Johnson Showalter USA 1858-1924/ Born in Cherry Grove, VA, he became an organist, gospel music composer, author, teacher, editor, and publisher. He was taught by his father and in 1876 received training at the Ruebush-Kieffer School of Music, Dayton, VA. He also attended George Root’s National Normal school at Erie, PA, and Dr Palmer’s International Normal at Meadville, PA. He was teaching music in shape note singing schools by age 14. He taught literary school at age 19, and normal music schools at age 22, when he also published his first book. In 1881 he married Lucy Carolyn (Callie) Walser of TX, and they had seven children: Tennie, Karl, Essie, Jennie, Lena, Margaret, and Nellie. At age 23 he published his “Harmony & composition” book, and years later his “Theory of music”. In 1884 he moved to Dalton, GA, and in 1890 formed the Showalter Music Company of Dalton. His company printed and published hymnals, songbooks, schoolbooks, magazines, and newspapers, and had offices in Texarkana, AR, and Chattanooga, TN. In 1888 he became a member of the M T N A (Music Teachers National Association) and was vice-president for his state for several years. In 1895 he went abroad to study methods of teachers and conductors in Europe. He held sessions of his Southern Normal Music Institute in a dozen or more states. He edited “The music teacher & home magazine” for 20 years. In 1895 he issued his “New harmony & composition” book. He authored 60+ books on music theory, harmony, and song. He published 130+ music books that sold over a million copies. Not only was he president of the A J Showalter Music Company of Dalton, GA, but also of the Showalter-Patton Company of Dallas, TX, two of the largest music publishing houses in the American south. He was a choir leader and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton (and his daughter, Essie, played the organ there). He managed his fruit farm, looking after nearly 20,000 trees , of which 15,000 are the famous Georgia Elberta peaches, the rest being apples, plums, pecans, and a dozen other varieties of peaches. He was also a stockholder and director of the Cherokee Lumber Company of Dalton, GA, furnishing building materials to a large trade in many southern, central and eastern states. He died in Chattanooga, TN, and is buried in Dalton, GA. He loved hymns, and kept up with many of his students over the years, writing them letters of counsel and encouragement. In 2000 Showalter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Note: Showalter received two letters one evening from former music students, both of who were grieving over the death of their wives. He had heard a sermon about the arms of Moses being held up during battle, and managed to form a tune and refrain for a hymn, but struggled to find words for the verses that fit. He wrote to his friend in OH, Rev Elisha Hoffman, who had already composed many hymns and asked if he could write some lyrics, which he gladly did.
John Perry
A. J. Showalter
William Kibbey
Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Little Children's Song"
William Kibbey
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Hymnal Title: Singing on the Way Composer of "[Little beams of brightness]" in Singing on the Way James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
