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Three tall trees stood on a windy hill

Author: Herbert O'Driscoll Appears in 3 hymnals

GRAND ISLE

Appears in 22 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John H. Hopkins Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51113 45653 45123 Used With Text: Three tall trees stood (Legend of the Trees)

THREE TALL TREES

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred V. Fedak Tune Key: c minor or modal Used With Text: Three tall trees grew on a windy hill

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Three tall trees grew on a windy hill

Author: Herbert O'Driscoll, b. 1928 Hymnal: A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #264 (1992) Topics: Passion and Death Languages: English Tune Title: THREE TALL TREES

Three tall trees stood on a windy hill

Author: T. Herbert O'Driscoll Hymnal: Sing #d22 (1972)

Three tall trees stood (Legend of the Trees)

Author: T. Herbert O'Driscoll Hymnal: Praise Ways #69 (1975) First Line: Three tall trees stood on a windy hill Tune Title: GRAND ISLE

b. 1928 Person Name: T. Herbert O'Driscoll Author of "Three tall trees stood (Legend of the Trees)" in Praise Ways O'Driscoll, Herbert. (Cork, Ireland, October 17, 1928-- ). Anglican. Graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, 1951. Pastorates at Monkstown (Ireland), 1952-1954; Ottawa, Ontario, 1954-1957, 1962-1968; Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1957-1960 (naval chaplaincy); Carp, Ont., 1960-1962; Vancouver, British Columbia, (dean), 1968-1982. In 1982 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become the warden of the College of Preachers at Washington Cathedral, but returned to Canada after one year. In both his hymns and his published sermons, he uses traditional techniques to set forth contemporary concerns, so that his work is unusually approachable. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives Also: O'Driscoll, T. Herbert (Thomas Herbert) O'Driscoll, Thomas Herbert

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Composer of "THREE TALL TREES" in A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Laura de Jong

John Henry Hopkins

1861 - 1945 Person Name: John H. Hopkins Composer of "GRAND ISLE" in Praise Ways John Henry Hopkins, born in Vermont, he was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1891. He served mostly in the Chicago diocese. He died in Grand Isle, Vermont. Dianne Shapiro from The Great Forty Years: in the Diocese of Chicago A.D. 1893 to 1934 (The Centenary Fund of the Diocese of Chicago, Inc.: 1936 and Find a Grave website (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33095210/john-henry-hopkins) (accessed 5/22/2024)