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Cesáreo Gabarain

1936 - 1991 Person Name: Cesáreo Gabaráin, 1936-1991 Author of "Lord, When You Came / Pescador de Hombres" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Cesáreo Gabaráin, a Spanish priest involved in liturgical renewal following Vatican II. Bert Polman

Willard F. Jabusch

1930 - 2018 Person Name: Willard F. Jabusch, b.1930 Translator of "Lord, When You Came / Pescador de Hombres" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Willard F. Jabusch (b. 1930) received degrees from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, and Loyola University, Chicago. He also earned a doctorate at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1986), and studied music at the Chicago Conservatory and the University of London. A parish priest at St. James Roman Catholic Church in Chicago from 1956 to 1961, he taught at Niles College of Loyola University from 1963 to 1966 and at the Mundelein Seminary from 1968 to 1990. Since 1990 Jabusch has been director of Calvert House, the Roman Catholic student center at the University of Chicago. His theological publications include The Person in the Pulpit (1980), Walk Where Jesus Walked (1986), and The Spoken Christ (1990). He has written some forty tunes and one hundred hymn texts, often pairing them with eastern European and Israeli folk tunes. Bert Polman

Skinner Chávez-Melo

1944 - 1992 Harmonizer of "PESCADOR DE HOMBRES" in Mil Voces para Celebrar 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

Geoff Weaver

b. 1943 Author (English) of "Tú has venido a la orilla (Lord, you have come to the seashore)" in In Every Corner Sing

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Translator of "Tú has venido a la orilla (Pescador de hombres) (Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore)" in Mil Voces para Celebrar Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Madeleine Forell Marshall

b. 1946 Person Name: Madeleine Forell Marshall, b. 1946 Translator of "You Have Come Down to the Lakeshore" in Sing! A New Creation

Diana Kodner

Person Name: Diana Kodner, b.1957 Acc. of "PESCADOR DE HOMBRES" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Diana Kodner Gokce holds a double M.M. in Music from Northwestern University specializing in voice/opera and conducting. As an undergraduate, Diana was a flute major at Northwestern University. She has been a flutist in the Minnesota Orchestra, performing under Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Jean-Pierre Rampal, to name but a few conductors. At the age of 17 Diana conducted the Minnesota Orchestra in a young people's concert as winner of the Urban Arts conducting competition. For six years Diana was conductor and musical director of the Mozart Sinfonia. She has been a conductor of choirs at Loyola University, National-Louis University, and Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Diana has authored several books including Handbook for Cantors (Liturgy Training Publications) and Sing God a Simple Song Volumes I and II (Treehaus Communications). She was the editor of A Sourcebook about Music and the Gather Comprehensive Hymnal, first edition (G.I.A. Publications). She was also the conductor for the choral recordings: Catholic Classics, V.I and II (G.I.A. Publications) and both flute and vocal soloist on the Taize recording "Wait for the Lord," from the same publisher. Diana was senior editor of Clavier Magazine and the editor of both Flute Talk and Flute Explorer magazines (The Instrumentalist Company). As editor of Flute Talk Diana interviewed the great flutist Sir James Galway and Jazz flutist Steve Kujala. Most recently Diana was music director for the DVD and CD series from Egghead Learning Systems: As I Grow, for children from birth to 18 months. For 11 years she was the music specialist at Baker Demonstration School in Wilmette, Illinois, and performed as a flutist in the chamber ensemble "Diletto Musicale." Beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, she is the middle school music teacher at The Frances Xavier Warde School, Holy Name Cathedral Campus in Chicago. Diana Kodner

Raquel Gutiérrez-Achon

1927 - 2013 Person Name: Raquel Gutiérrez-Achón Translator of "Tú has venido a la orilla (Pescador de hombres) (Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore)" in Mil Voces para Celebrar

Gertrude C. Suppe

1911 - 2007 Translator of "Tú has venido a la orilla (Pescador de hombres) (Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore)" in Mil Voces para Celebrar Gertrude Suppe (b. 1911) is well known not only for her translations, but also for her pioneer work in compiling all known Hispanic church music in a database that has been an invaluable resource. Sing! A New Creation!