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Sydney H. Nicholson

1875 - 1947 Person Name: Sydney Hugo Nicholson, 1875-1947 Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Composer (Tone) of "[Alelluya! Alleluya! We will praise the name of the Lord]" in New English Praise Sydney H. Nicholson, (b. St. Marylebone, London, England, 1875; d. Ashford, Kent, England, 1947) was an organist and church music educator who greatly influenced English hymnody. Educated at Oxford's New College, the Royal College of Music in London, and in Frankfurt, Germany, he became organist at several famous cathedrals, including Westminster Abbey (1919-1928). Nicholson founded and administered the School of English Church Music at Chislehurst in 1927; this important institution, with branches throughout the English-speaking world, was renamed the Royal School of Church Music in 1945. Located in Canterbury after World War II, its headquarters were moved to Addington Palace, Croydon, in 1954. Nicholson was music adviser for the 1916 Supplement of Hymns Ancient and Modern and prepared the way for its 1950 edition. He wrote Church Music: a Practical Handbook (1920) and Quires and Places Where They Sing (1932) and composed operettas, anthems, and hymn tunes. In 1938 he was knighted for his contributions to church music. Bert Polman

Joseph Gelineau

1920 - 2008 Person Name: Joseph Gelineau, SJ, b. 1920 Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Author (Antiphon) of "How great is your name, O Lord our God" in New English Praise Joseph Gelineau (1920-2008) Gelineau's translation and musical settings of the psalms have achieved nearly universal usage in the Christian church of the Western world. These psalms faithfully recapture the Hebrew poetic structure and images. To accommodate this structure his psalm tones were designed to express the asymmetrical three-line/four-line design of the psalm texts. He collaborated with R. Tournay and R. Schwab and reworked the Jerusalem Bible Psalter. Their joint effort produced the Psautier de la Bible de Jerusalem and recording Psaumes, which won the Gran Prix de L' Academie Charles Cros in 1953. The musical settings followed four years later. Shortly after, the Gregorian Institute of America published Twenty-four Psalms and Canticles, which was the premier issue of his psalms in the United States. Certainly, his text and his settings have provided a feasible and beautiful solution to the singing of the psalms that the 1963 reforms envisioned. Parishes, their cantors, and choirs were well-equipped to sing the psalms when they embarked on the Gelineau psalmody. Gelineau was active in liturgical development from the very time of his ordination in 1951. He taught at the Institut Catholique de Paris and was active in several movements leading toward Vatican II. His influence in the United States as well in Europe (he was one of the founding organizers of Universa Laus, the international church music association) is as far reaching as it is broad. Proof of that is the number of times "My shepherd is the Lord" has been reprinted and reprinted in numerous funeral worship leaflets, collections, and hymnals. His prolific career includes hundreds of compositions ranging from litanies to responsories. His setting of Psalm 106/107, "The Love of the Lord," for assembly, organ, and orchestra premiéred at the 1989 National Association of Pastoral Musicians convention in Long Beach, California. --www.giamusic.com

Gregory Murray

1905 - 1992 Person Name: Anthony Gregory Murray, 1905-92 Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Composer (Tone) of "[The Lord will bless his people with peace]" in New English Praise

Laurence Bévenot

1901 - 1990 Person Name: Laurence Bevenot, 1901-90 Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Composer (Tone) of "[All nations shall fall before you]" in New English Praise

Michael Joncas

b. 1951 Person Name: Michael Joncas, b. 1951 Topics: Joy; Power of God; Praise; Sunday, the Lord's Day; The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night Reading 8 (Epistle); Easter Season Common Psalm; Easter Sunday; Easter 4 Year B; Easter 7 Year B; Service Music for Mass Responsorial Psalm; Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest Responsorial Psalm; Morning Prayer Morning Psalms, Canticles; The Liturgical Year Easter Sunday; The Liturgical Year Easter (Sundays and Weekdays) Composer of "[Give thanks to the LORD for he is good]" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Rory Cooney

b. 1952 Person Name: Rory Cooney, b. 1952 Topics: Global Family; Joy; Power of God; Praise; Refuge; Easter Season Common Psalm; Easter 3 Year B; Easter 5 Year B; Easter 6 Year A; Fourteenth Ordinary Year C; Service Music for Mass Responsorial Psalm; Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest Responsorial Psalm; Morning Prayer Morning Psalms, Canticles; The Liturgical Year Easter (Sundays and Weekdays) Composer of "[Cry out with joy to God, all the earth]" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Ian Forrester

Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Composer (Antiphon) of "[The Lord will bless his people with peace]" in New English Praise b. Liverpool, educated there at the Blue Cost School. Studied music at the Colchester Institute, and then for the Anglican priesthood at Chichester Theological College where he began to compose music for the liturgy. After a curacy he became Succentor at St George’s, Windsor Castle, Precentor of Chelmsford Cathedral, Chaplain of Lancing College, and then Vicar of Boxgrove. He has continued to compose, especially psalm settings. Ian Forrester

Simon Lindley

Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Composer (Antiphon) of "[With joy you will draw water]" in New English Praise

Fintan O'Carroll

1922 - 1981 Person Name: Fintan O'Carroll, d. 1977 Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Composer (Antiphon) of "[What marvels the Lord worked for us]" in New English Praise Fintan O’Carroll was born on 31st July 1922 in Wexford, and spent most of his life in Waterford. On completion of his secondary school studies Fintan took up a position as a Clerk in C.I.E., the national railway. He won first prize in a traditional music competition, aged 12, playing violin, and went on to study violin at home, taking lessons as and when the opportunity arose. While working at C.I.E. Fintan undertook a correspondence course in Music from Trinity College, Dublin. His heart was in music, and he left C.I.E. in 1967 after 27 years service, whereupon he completed his degree at Trinity to gain his B.Mus. along with the Prout Prize for the most outstanding student of the year. All the time Fintan had taken a keen interest in composition, particularly sacred music. Fintan became a fulltime teacher at the Presentation Convent Secondary School in Waterford, a job which payed about half the salary in C.I.E. at the time. He supplemented his income by taking 52 private pupils, conducting 2 brass bands, and led the orchestra in every musical show that offered. Some of the many musical organizations that owe a debt of musical gratitude to Fintan, whether it be as leader, violinist, conductor, organist, composer, or founder include Waterford Orchestral Players; Waterford Festival of Light Opera Orchestra; St Saviours Church, Bridge Street; the Franciscan Friary; the Church of SS Josephs and Benildus; St Patrick’s; Waterford Cathedral; St Patrick’s Brass Band; HFC Brass Band, New Ross; Mount Sion Silver Band. It is particularly with the brass bands that we are interested and it is fair to say that Fintan brought a sense of musicality and musicianship to these bands which helped greatly in the development of their players and the achievement of competition successes at all levels. Many musicians have commented later in their life that it was the love of music instilled in them by Fintan that carried them through their own musical lives. One of the proudest moments of Fintan’s musical career must have been when his Mass of the Immaculate Conception was chosen for the occasion of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Limerick in 1979. He took part in the Offertory Procession on this momentous occasion. Fintan died in July 1981 and was survived by his wife Josephine, a fine contralto voice, and whom he credits with much of his own success. They had six children: Fiona, Deirdre, Fergus, Declan, Kevin, Aoileann, and Cian, many of which play a very active role in the musical life of Waterford and beyond. --www.mountsionsilverband.org/history/

Grail

Person Name: The Grail Topics: Responsorial Psalms and Canticles Author (Verses) of "How great is your name, O Lord our God" in New English Praise