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John Wesley Work

1873 - 1925 Person Name: John Wesley Work, Jr. Tune Title: [ആ രാവില്‍ ആ-ട്ടിന്‍ കൂട്ടം] Hymnal Number: 14850 Composer of "[ആ രാവില്‍ ആ-ട്ടിന്‍ കൂട്ടം]" in The Cyber Hymnal John W. Work, Jr. (b. Nashville, TN, 1872; d. Nashville, 1925), is well known for his pioneering studies of African American folk music and for his leadership in the performance of spirituals. He studied music at Fisk University in Nashville and classics at Harvard and then taught Latin, Greek, and history at Fisk from 1898 to 1923. Director of the Jubilee Singers at Fisk, Work also sang tenor in the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, which toured the country after 1909 and made commercial recordings. He was president of Roger Williams University in Nashville during the last two years of his life. Work and his brother Frederick Jerome Work (1879-1942) were devoted to collecting, arranging, and publishing African American slave songs and spirituals. They published two collections: New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) and Folk Songs of the American Negro (1907). Bert Polman

Kittie Deason

Tune Title: [A Savior once came from the mansions of light] Hymnal Number: 3478 Author of "Just the Right Savior Is Jesus" in The Cyber Hymnal Early 20th Century

Dan Ward Milam

Person Name: Dan W. Milam Tune Title: [A Savior once came from the mansions of light] Hymnal Number: 3478 Composer of "[A Savior once came from the mansions of light]" in The Cyber Hymnal

Fannie E. Allen

Person Name: Fannie K. Allen Tune Title: [A servant of Jesus am I] Hymnal Number: 1735 Author of "Get Ready to Welcome the King!" in The Cyber Hymnal

J. M. G.

Tune Title: [A servant of Jesus am I] Hymnal Number: 1735 Arranger of "Get Ready to Welcome the King!" in The Cyber Hymnal

Isaiah Toy

Tune Title: [A sinner though I am, of darkest, deepest shade] Hymnal Number: 5743 Author of "Redemption (Toy)" in The Cyber Hymnal

Beatriz Borges da Silva

Person Name: Maria Beatriz da Silva Borges Tune Title: [A todos nós o Senhor diz] Hymnal Number: 15150 Author of "Confia No Senhor" in The Cyber Hymnal Maria Beatriz da Silva Borges

G. H. Gregory

Tune Title: [A virgin did come from lowliest home] Hymnal Number: 7075 Composer of "[A virgin did come from lowliest home]" in The Cyber Hymnal Ware Parish Church-- An organ recital, given on May 8th, 1888 by Mr. G. H. Gregory, Mus. Bac. Oxon, F. C. O. The Musical World, Volume 68

Tali Esen Morgan

1858 - 1958 Tune Title: [A wonderful promise God's given] Hymnal Number: 10270 Composer of "[A wonderful promise God's given]" in The Cyber Hymnal

C. R. L. Vawter

Person Name: Charles Richard Leroy Vawter Tune Title: [A wonderful Savior is Jesus my king] Hymnal Number: 16113 Author of "A Wonderful Savior" in The Cyber Hymnal