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Jeremiah Clarke

1669 - 1707 Person Name: Jeremiah Clark Topics: Disobedience Composer of "NOTTINGHAM" in The Psalter

Ralph Harrison

1748 - 1810 Topics: Disobedience Composer of "[O ye my people hear, I'll speak]" in Bible Songs

1908 - 1972 Topics: Disobedience Composer of "WEYMOUTH" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) The Rev. Dr. Theodore Parker Ferris, the son of Walter Andrew and Eva (Parker) Ferris, was born in Port Chester, New York, on December 23, 1908. He received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1929 and B.D. from General Theological Seminary, NY, in 1933. Ordained deacon on June 11, 1933, he was ordained a priest on May 27, 1934. From 1933 until 1937 Ferris was assistant to the rector of Grace Church, New York, and at the same time served as fellow and tutor at General Seminary. From 1937 until 1942, he was rector of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, and from 1942 until his death, he was the fourteenth rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Many of his publications were books of sermons. He published a book on preaching Go Tell the People (1951) in which he stated that "A sermon is by nature a disclosure, an unveiling, a revelation . . . to preach is to draw the curtain aside from the figure of Christ and to lose oneself in the folds of it." He was also author of This Created World, 1944; This is the Day, 1951; The Story of Jesus, 1953; "Exposition of the Acts of the Apostles" in The Interpreter’s Bible, 1954; When I Became a Man, 1957; The New Life, 1961; Book of Prayer for Everyman, 1962; What Jesus Did, 1963; and The Image of God, 1965. From 1943 until 1964 Dr. Ferris was an adjunct instructor in homiletics at the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was active in the ecumenical movement and an alternate delegate to the first assembly of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam in 1948. As well, he was Delegate to the Episcopal Church's triennial General Convention in 1946, 1949, 1952, 1955, 1961, and 1967. Furthermore, he as a trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His honorary degrees included S.T.D. from General Seminary, 1961; D.D., Rollins College, 1944, Middlebury College., 1955, Boston University, 1958, Harvard College, 1969; and Mus.D., Westminster Choir Coll., Princeton, N.J., 1967. A bachelor, Dr. Ferris died in Boston on Nov. 26, 1972. --www.philosophy-religion.org/diaconate/

William Tans'ur

1699 - 1783 Topics: Disobedience Composer of "ROTHWELL" in The Psalter William Tansur, b. about 1700, Dunchurch of Barnes; d. 1783, St. Neots Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 Also known as Tansur; Tanzer; le Tansur

William Vincent Wallace

1812 - 1865 Person Name: W. V. Wallace Topics: Disobedience Composer of "[O praise the Lord. for he is good, his grace is ever sure]" in Bible Songs

Herbert Stephen Irons

1834 - 1905 Person Name: H. S. Irons Topics: Disobedience Composer of "[We with our fathers have transgressed]" in Bible Songs Born: January 19, 1834, Canterbury, Kent, England. Died: June 29, 1905, Nottingham, England. Irons was a nephew of the brothers Stephen & George Elvey. He became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under T. E. Jones. After studying music under Stephen Elvey at Oxford, he was appointed organist at St. Columba’s College, a large public school at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland. He stayed there only a few months before being offered the position of organist at Southwell Minister. From Southwell, he went to Chester as assistant organist to Frederic Gunton. Three years later, he accepted an appointment at St. Andrew’s Church, Nottingham, where he remained until his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch

W. S. Marshall

Topics: Disobedience Composer of "[I cried to God, I cried, he heard]" in Bible Songs He composed tunes for gospel lyric writers. John Perry

Darius E. Jones

1815 - 1881 Topics: Disobedience Composer of "STOCKWELL" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue)

Maitre Pierre

Topics: Disobedience Composer (attr.) of "TRUMPET" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue)

Henry A. Bruinsma

1916 - 1991 Topics: Disobedience Harmonizer of "TRUMPET" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) It was in Bruinsma's musical compositions that his brilliance was most displayed. “Henry’s personality was … embodied in his music: colorful, radiating charisma, magnetic in a nonverbal way,” niece Jane DeGroot said. Bruinsma displayed musical potential even before he was considered old enough to take music lessons, said his wife, Grace Hekman Bruinsma. The preschooler would eavesdrop on his older brother’s piano lessons. After the teacher left, Bruinsma would climb onto the piano bench to practice his brother’s lesson assignment. Later on, he chose to attend Ottawa Hills High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., for its music program. Following high school graduation in 1933, Bruinsma attended the University of Michigan for a degree in music. He stayed on to complete a Ph.D. in musicology, becoming the first musicologist to graduate from the University of Michigan. It was during his graduate work that Bruinsma wrote Scherzo on a Dutch Nursery Song. “He never lost his love for Dutch history or Dutch Reformed music,” Grace Bruinsma said. It was also during his time at U of M that Bruinsma began taking Grace to music concerts, and in 1939 they were married. Bruinsma began his time as a professor of music at Calvin College (1946-55). In addition to his teaching duties at the college, Bruinsma taught the first music and theology course at Calvin Seminary. He also chaired the first Conference on Liturgy of Music. However, not long after his time at Calvin, Bruinsma decided he was being called to move from teaching to education administration. Of note is his time at Ohio State University (1959-64), where he served as the director of the School of Music. He also held the position of executive committee member of the College of Education. Next, Bruinsma moved to what is now Arizona State University (1964-79), another notable mark in his education administration career. During that time, he served first as chair of the School of Music, then as founding dean of the College of Fine Arts. He is also known to have started the first religious studies program at Arizona State as part of the university’s interdisciplinary studies program. Due to the amount of time he spent in education administration, much of Bruinsma’s musical compositions were never published. After his death, Grace Bruinsma contacted Gerry Bouma of Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. Bouma and Henry Bruinsma had met in 1969 at a Grand Rapids Christian High School concert in Chicago. “For whatever reason, Henry and Grace treated us like we were their kids,” Bouma said. Grace asked Bouma to catalog and publish the 10,000 pages of Henry’s material. Taking a semester sabbatical, Bouma began his work. Bouma’s catalog of Bruinsma’s work can be found in the Heritage Hall Archives at the Hekman Library, Calvin College. The Archives also hosts additional works from Bruinsma’s time at Calvin. --Excerpted from Calvin Spark, Spring 2006 issue