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[Where shall we find bread in the wilderness]

[Where shall we find bread in the wilderness]

Composer: Ewald Bash
Published in 1 hymnal


Composer: Ewald Bash

Ewald J. Bash (Indiana, 1924-- ). A poet and also an occasional writer of folk melodies, his personal interests arose in the era of return to genuine folk music of the early Sixties and continued into the Seventies during the time of turmoil and crisis. His lyrics, set to a Latvian folk song, "Hymn for Those in Captivity," appears in Cantate Domine. He also composed hymns which have appeared in the hymnals of a number of communions. He was part of a folk liturgical movement in the Lutheran Church and contributed much to a development of such moods in an early work, Songs for Today. Certain of his work has also appeared in Jerusalem/Babylon: Handbook for a Christian in the Urban World. --Ewald J. Bash, DNAH Archives In a letter from Ba… Go to person page >

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Title: [Where shall we find bread in the wilderness]
Composer: Ewald Bash
Incipit: 11115 43211 1
Key: G Major
Copyright: © 1964 by The Youth Department, The American Lutheran Church. Used by permission.;Accompaniment © 1974 by The Brethren Press.
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