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Brian Barlow

b. 1952 Person Name: Brian Barlow (1952-) Scripture: Matthew 27:11-54 Percussion arrangement of "LACQUIPARLE" in Common Praise (1998) Brian Barlow (drummer, percussionist, guitarist, producer) was born in 1952 in Bellville, Ontario, Canada. He has spent mosst of his career in the Toronto recording studios and is one of Canada’s most recorded musicians. He has worked with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, and the Esprit Orchestra. -Nancy Naber

Alec Wyton

1921 - 2007 Person Name: Alec Wyton (b. 1921) Scripture: Matthew 27:27-45 Composer of "INDIFFERENCE" in Wonder, Love, and Praise Alec Wyton is described in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, by saying, "Wyton has brought together and caused to flourish three separate traditions: English church music, American church music and music from outside the churches." Also bringing together clergy and musicians of the Episcopal Church, he was the Coordinator of the Standing Commission on Church Music from 1974 to 1985; he was Minister of Music at St. Stephen's Church, in Ridgefield, Conn., from 1987 until his appointment as Minister of Music Emeritus in 2004; and he was Founder and Chairman of the Church Music Department of the Manhattan School of Music. Wyton is the award-winning ASCAP composer of over 100 published works; editor of the Anglican Chant Psalter; contributor of articles to professional journals; performer, teacher and lecturer: he is the complete musician. From 1954 to 1974 he was Organist and Master of the Choristers at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Headmaster of the Cathedral Choir School. He taught at Union Theological Seminary in NYC and was Chairman of the Organ Department at Westminster Choir College, Princeton. Wyton was born in London in 1921. He earned degrees from the Royal Academy of Music and Oxford University. He came to the United States in 1950, working briefly in Dallas and St. Louis. Wyton died on March 18, 2007, after a prolonged illness. He has traveled throughout the US and Canada playing recitals, conducting workshops, master classes and hymn festivals stressing the coexistence in liturgy of great music and literature of the past with new and exciting works by artists of our time. --www.selahpub.com

John Karl Hirten

b. 1956 Scripture: Matthew 27:45 Composer of "ALEXANDRA" in Wonder, Love, and Praise A published composer of a wide range of liturgical, sacred and secular works, John Karl Hirten’s music has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Pipedreams program, at conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians. His hymn tunes have won awards and his choral music is also regularly performed in churches and concert venues around the world. Recent commissions include Inscriptions, a piece for orchestra and chorus, A complete Evening Service (using the Anglican Prayer Book), and a setting of the chorale "Ein feste Burg" in minimalist style. John Karl Hirten has a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied with Paul-Martin Maki and Frederick Swann. Before that, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Classical Languages from Fordham University. He has performed organ recitals in venues throughout the country and in Europe. In 2006, he was a finalist in the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988, he has performed at virtually all the major venues in the Bay Area. From 1989 until 2016, he played monthly recitals at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor on the historic E. M. Skinner organ there (well over 300 recitals). He has performed regularly at such series as Noontime Concerts, Music at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Grace Cathedral, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, and elsewhere. In connection with the San Francisco Opera’s 2002 production of Messiaen’s Saint Françoise d’Assise, he performed a recital of the composer’s music at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco. He has also appeared as organist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Oakland Ballet, the Berkeley Symphony, American Bach Soloists, and others. He was previously Director of Parish Music at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, and is currently Director of Music at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ross, California. John Karl Hirten

David Iliff

Person Name: David Iliff, 1935- Scripture: Matthew 27:45-66, 28:1-10 Composer of "THREE DAYS ON" in Common Praise (1998)

John McKinstry

Scripture: Matthew 27:46 Composer of "[My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?]" in Worship in Song

Heinrich Isaac

1450 - 1517 Person Name: Heinrich Isaac, c. 1450-1517 Scripture: Matthew 27:45-50 Composer (attributed to) of "O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN" in Together in Song Heinrich Isaac; b. about 1450, Germany; organist in Florence, Italy; supposed to have died there abour 1517 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

José Maurício Nunes Garcia

1767 - 1830 Person Name: José Maurício Nunes Garcia, 1767-1830 Scripture: Matthew 27:23-54 Composer of "KYRIE" in When Breaks the Dawn

Anne Quigley

Person Name: Anne Quigley, b. 1956 Scripture: Matthew 27:46 Composer of "[Father, forgive them]" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Anne Quigley is a respected composer and liturgist whose music has been featured in the Decani Choral Music Series in England. She manages to balance her work in music composition and liturgy with her work as a full-time homemaker. Anne is a member of the St. Thomas More Group of composers. http://www.ocp.org/artists

Fred Coblentz

Person Name: Fred. Coblentz Scripture: Matthew 27:46 Composer of "[The morn is come, the night is past]" in Priceless Pearls

Horace Clarence Boyer

1935 - 2009 Scripture: Matthew 27:35 Arranger of "WAYFARING STRANGER" in Voices Together Horace Boyer (b. Winter Park, Flordia, July 28, 1935; d. Amherst, Massachusetts, July 21, 2009) was professor of music at the University of Massachussetts, Amhurst, editor of the African American hymnal Lift Every Voice and Sing, Lift Every Voice and Sing II, and author of How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel (Elliot & Clark, 1995). Sing! A New Creation