[Wake the echoes sweetly singing]

[Wake the echoes sweetly singing]

Composer: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, Jr.
Published in 2 hymnals


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Composer: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, Jr.

Born: March 2, 1892, San Francisco, California. Pseudonym: Jean Howard. Gabriel was living with his parents in Cook County, Illinois, in 1910. He was still there in 1920 with his wife Ethel. In 1926, he was musical director and announcer for radio station KLX in Oakland, California. By 1930, he and his wife were in Los Angeles County, California. The January 30, 1926 issue of Colliers magazine said of him: "Gabe" has experienced all those changes which the Fates deem necessary to broaden one’s views. He has taught music in the Indianapolis [Indiana] and Northwestern Conservatories; edited mechanical and automobile magazines; traveled with Billy Sunday; been a newspaper reporter; rewrite man; music editor and book reviewer.… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Wake the echoes sweetly singing]
Composer: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, Jr.
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Incipit: 11776 76533 33212
Notes: Some hym­nals show the com­pos­er as Jean How­ard, one of Ga­bri­el’s pseu­do­nyms.
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #7109
Text: Wake the Joyful Echoes
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