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Bob Dufford

b. 1943 Person Name: Bob Dufford, SJ, b. 1943 Topics: Despedida Author of "Be Not Afraid (No Temas Más)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

b. 1946 Person Name: Georgina Pando-Connolly, b. 1946 Topics: Despedida Translator of "Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service (Con Tu Fiel Servicio, Oh Cristo)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Gerald H. Knight

1908 - 1979 Person Name: Gerald H. Knight, 1908-1979 Topics: Despedida Harmonizer of "ASH GROVE" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Gerald Hocken Knight CBE (1908–1979) was an cathedral organist, who served at Canterbury Cathedral. Gerald Hocken Knight was born on 27 July 1908 in Par, Cornwall, and was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was an articled organ pupil of Hubert Stanley Middleton at Truro Cathedral. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in 1964. He published the following compositions and books: The Treasury of English Church Music. Volume one. 1100-1545. Edited by Denis Stevens, etc. 1965 Accompaniments for unison Hymn-singing. 1971 Christ whose Glory fills the Skies. [Anthem for treble voices and organ.] Words by Charles Wesley, etc. 1957 The Coventry Mass. Adapted from medieval sources. Accompaniment by G. H. Knight. 1966 Incidental Vocal Music to "The Devil to pay," Play by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1939 Incidental Music to The Zeal of Thy House, Dorothy L. Sayers. 1938 Twenty Questions on Church Music. Answered by G. H. Knight (Series. no. 3.), 1950 R.S.C.M. The first forty years. 1968 --en.wikipedia.org/

Robert J. Batastini

b. 1942 Person Name: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Topics: Despedida Arranger of "[Awake from your slumber] " in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Robert J. Batastini is the retired vice president and senior editor of GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago. Bob has over fifty-five years of service in pastoral music ministry, having served several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago and one in the Diocese of Joliet. He served as executive editor and project director for the Worship hymnals (three editions), Gather hymnals (three editions), Catholic Community Hymnal, and as executive editor of RitualSong. In 1993 he became the first recipient of the Father Lawrence Heimann Citation for lifetime contribution to church music and liturgy in the U.S., awarded by St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana, and was named "Pastoral Musician of the Year-2000" by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). At its 2006 conference, he was named a Fellow of the Hymn society in the United States and Canada. In his retirement he is active in the music ministry of St. Francis de Sales Parish, Holland, MI. Nancy Naber, from www.giamusic.com/bios/

Johann Rudolf Ahle

1625 - 1673 Person Name: Johann Rudolph Ahle, 1625-1673 Topics: Bienvenida y Despedida Composer of "LIEBSTER JESU, WIR SIND HIER" in Culto Cristiano Johann Rudolph Ahle, b. Mühlhausen, 1625; Ahle studied theology at Erfurt University. Little is known about his musical education, but be became well known as an organist while he was in Erfurt. He returned to Mühlhausen and became an organist at St. Blasius Church, he composed organ music but is know for his sacred choral music. He was the father of Johann Georg, who was also a composer and succeeded his father as organist at St. Blasius Church. Johann Rudolf became mayor of Mühlhausen late in his life and died there in 1673. Dianne Shapiro (from Bach Cantatas Website www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Ahle-Johann-Rudolf.htm)

Epigmenio Velasco

1880 - 1940 Topics: Culto Despedida Author of "Dios Te Bendiga" in El Himnario Epigmenio Velasco Urda was a choir director, pastor, poet, composer and journalist from Mexico City. Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992

Michael Pope

Person Name: Michael Pope, SJ Topics: Despedida Arranger of "HERE I AM, LORD" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Horace Clarence Boyer

1935 - 2009 Person Name: Horace Clarence Boyer, 1935-2009 Topics: Despedida Composer of "LATTIMER" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song 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

Dimas Planas-Belfort

1934 - 1992 Person Name: Dimas Planas-Belfort, 1934-1992 Topics: Despedida Translator of "Sent Forth by God's Blessing (Con sus Bendiciones)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Skinner Chávez-Melo

1944 - 1992 Person Name: Skinner Chávez-Melo, 1944-1992 Topics: Despedida Arranger of "ID Y ENSEÑAD" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Skinner Chavez-Melo, an organist, conductor and composer who was music director at the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan, died on Saturday at New York Downtown Hospital. He was 47 years old and lived in Manhattan. He died of spinal cancer, said his brother, Juan Francisco. Mr. Chavez-Melo was born in Mexico City, but completed his musical studies in the United States, receiving degrees at Eastern Nazarene College and the Union Theological Seminary, and pursuing further studies at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School. He toured internationally as an organist and conducted orchestras in Mexico, Brazil and the United States. As a composer, he wrote works for organ, choir and orchestra, and contributed hymn settings to several published hymnals, including those of the United Church of Christ and Yale University. He also lectured and presented workshops on Hispanic church music. Besides directing music at St. Rose, Mr. Chavez-Melo conducted the annual Singing Christmas Tree concerts at the South Street Seaport. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/28