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Rosamond E. Herklots

1905 - 1987 Person Name: Rosmond E. Herklots, 1905-1987 Topics: Amor Para Otros Author of "Forgive Our Sins (Nos Enseñaste a Perdonar)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Rosamond E. Herklots was born of British parents in North India. Educated at Leeds University in England, she worked for many years as secretary to an eminent neurologist, and later in the head office of the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus in London. She began writing hymns late in life, and some achieved an immediate success. --www.societyholytrinity.org/2007gr-hymnfestcommentary.htm Herklots began writing poetry in her childhood and turned to hymn writing in her adult years. She wrote over seventy hymns, many specifically with children in mind. --Presbyterian Hymnal Companion

Edgar L. Maxwell

1878 - 1940 Person Name: E. L. Maxwell Topics: Amor Para Otros Translator of "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Hay Anchura en Su Clemencia)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Bob Hurd

b. 1950 Person Name: Bob Hurd, n. 1930 Topics: Amor Para Otros Author of "Somos el Cuerpo de Cristo (We Are the Body of Christ)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Edward Hodges

1796 - 1867 Person Name: Edward Hodges, 1796-1867 Topics: Amor Para Otros Arranger of "HYMN TO JOY" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Born: July 20, 1796, Bristol, England. Died: September 1, 1867, Clifton, Bristol, England. Buried: Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew (about eight miles south of Bristol). Hodges’ musical gift showed itself at an early age; by 1819, he was playing the organ at St. James’ Church in Bristol, and at St. Nicholas’, 1821-1838. He also had an interesting mechanical bent, and spurred several technical improvements in organ design. He composed a number of services and anthem pieces, and Cambridge University awarded him a doctorate in music in 1825. Hodges eventually emigrated, accepting a post at the cathedral in Toronto, Canada, in 1838. The next year, he became music director at Trinity Parish in New York City. He became the organist at Trinity Church when it opened in 1846 (the church had its organ built to his specifications). He retired for health reasons in 1859, and returned to his native England in 1863. Hodges’ works include: An Apology for Church Music and Musical Festivals, in Answer…to the Standard and the Record (London: 1834) Essays on the Objects of Musical Study (Bristol, England: 1838) An Essay on the Cultivation of Church Music (New York: 1841) Contributions to the Quarterly Musical Magazine & Musical World Trinity Collection of Church Music (Boston, Massachusetts: 1864) (editor) Music-- BRISTOL GLOUCESTER HABAKKUK HYMN TO JOY --www.hymntime.com/

Michel Guimont

b. 1950 Person Name: Michel Guimont, b. 1950 Topics: Amor Para Otros Composer of "AMEN" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles H. Webb, b. 1933 Topics: Amor Para Otros Harmonizer of "DOVE OF PEACE" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Joseph R. Alfred

b. 1947 Person Name: Joseph R. Alfred, b. 1947 Topics: Amor Para Otros Author (sts. 2-4) of "A Living Faith (Fe Santa Que Nos Dio Jesús)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Robert J. Batastini

b. 1942 Person Name: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Topics: Amor Para Otros Arranger of "[Make me a channel of your peace]" 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/

Alberto Merubia

1919 - 2013 Person Name: Alberto Merubia, b. 1919 Topics: Amor Para Otros Translator (st. 1) of "Spirit of the Living God (Ven Espíritu de Dios)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Gerald H. Knight

1908 - 1979 Person Name: Gerald H. Knight, 1908-1979 Topics: Amor Para Otros Harmonizer of "DETROIT" 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/

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