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James V. Marchionda

Scripture: Psalm 98 Composer of "[Sing to the LORD a new song]" in One in Faith

1732 - 1789 Scripture: Psalm 98:1-2 Composer of "DARWALL’S 148TH" in Voices Together John Darwall (b. Haughton, Staffordshire, England, 1731; d. Walsall, Staffordshire, England, 1789) The son of a pastor, he attended Manchester Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, England (1752-1756). He became the curate and later the vicar of St. Matthew's Parish Church in Walsall, where he remained until his death. Darwall was a poet and amateur musician. He composed a soprano tune and bass line for each of the 150 psalm versifications in the Tate and Brady New Version of the Psalms of David (l696). In an organ dedication speech in 1773 Darwall advocated singing the "Psalm tunes in quicker time than common [in order that] six verses might be sung in the same space of time that four generally are." Bert Polman

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles H. Webb Scripture: Psalm 98:1-2 Composer (Descant) of "DARWALL’S 148TH" in Voices Together

James Relly

1722 - 1778 Scripture: Psalm 98:1 Author of "Solemn Praise" in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs James Relly was born about 1722 at Jeffreston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and died in 1778. He was converted to Christianity during the Great Awakening ushered in by George Whitefield. He worked under George Whitefield as a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and missionary. However, Whitefield and Relly separated ways over Relly's seemingly universalist teaching that all humanity was elect (i.e. saved) when Christ took the punishment for all sin when he died. He also departed from both the Calvinists and Methodists by taking the doctrine of Justification further, in teaching that believers no longer sin and the Law's sole purpose is to condemn humanity and point them to Christ. He was the mentor of John Murray, the founder of the Universalist Church of America. Relly along with his brother John wrote Christian Hymns, Poems and Spiritual Songs in 1758, which John Murray had republished in America in 1776. Dianne Shapiro; from an article by Alexander Gordon in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, vol. 48; Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography; and Disoriented. Reoriented. blog (https://disorientedtheology.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/all-shall-be-well-chapter-6-james-relly/)

Edna F. Grant

1905 - 1981 Person Name: Edna Fay Grant (1905-1981) Scripture: Psalm 98 Author of "Walk Softly In Springtime" in Common Praise (1998) Grant, Edna Fay. (Rockland, Ontario, October 27, 1905--1981). Baptist. She moved with her parents to British Columbia, where she worked in various occupations until the onset of diabetes threatened her eyesight. Her doctor stimulated her not only to learn Braille, but to widen her range of interests. In 1942, she became national field secretary for Canada of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; after 1948, when blindness ruled out steady travelling, she continued at the WCTU's Toronto office until 1974, when she retired in theory if not in practice. She published privately two books of verse: Walk softy in springtime (1962) and All the trimmings (Christmas, 1973). The former has as its keynote her best-known hymn, which won second place in a Hymn Society contest for children's hymns. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives ============================ Edna Fay Grant has a special distinction; she is the first of the Society's new hymn writers who is blind. This limitation, however, does not keep her from a very active life. Her home is in Toronto, Canada, where she is Field Secretary for the Toronto W.C.T.U. She has six groups of children every week, and also directs a Camp during the summer. She has spoken to various groups from time to time in Schools, Sunday Schools, and other youth groups as well as working among adults. She is presently taking a course on Poetry Enjoyment from the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, Illinois. --Twelve New Hymns for Children, 1965. Used by permission.

Ronald A. Knox

1888 - 1957 Person Name: Ronald A. Knox (1888-1957) Scripture: Psalm 98 Author of "Through the Red Sea Brought at Last" in Common Praise (1998)

Henry A. Bruinsma

1916 - 1991 Scripture: Psalm 98 Harmonizer of "NAVARRE (CORNERSTONE)" 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