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Chrysogonus Waddell

1930 - 2008 Person Name: CW Scripture: Psalm 118 Composer (Antiphon) of "[Give thanks to the Lord for he is good]" in Worship (3rd ed.)

1930 - 1986 Person Name: Stanley Wiersma Scripture: Psalm 118 Versifier of "Give Thanks to God for All His Goodness" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Pseudonym: Sietze Buning ********** Stanley Marvin Wiersma (b. Orange City, IA, 1930; d. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1986) was a poet and professor of English at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1959 until his sudden death in 1986. He attended Calvin as an undergraduate and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. His love for the Genevan psalms is reflected in the two books of poetry for which he is most widely known: Purpaleanie and Other Permutations (1978) and Style and Class (1982), both written under the pseudonym Sietze Buning. He also wrote More Than the Ear Discovers: God in the Plays of Christopher Fry and translated many Dutch poems and hymn texts into English, including the children's hymns published in All Will Be New (1982). Bert Polman

Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Person Name: Free Pratt Green, (1903-2000) Scripture: Psalm 118:14 Author of "God Is Our Song" in Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

Scott Soper

Person Name: Scott Soper, b. 1961 Scripture: Psalm 118:16-17 Author (verses) of "Psalm 118: This Is the Day" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Mary Louise Bringle

b. 1953 Scripture: Psalm 118 Translator of "This Is the Day (Este es el día) (Psalm 118)" in Glory to God

Michael Forster

b. 1946 Person Name: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Scripture: Psalm 118 Author of "Each of us is a living stone (Living stones)" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Robert Milano

1936 - 2005 Person Name: Roberto Milano Scripture: Psalm 118:19-29 Arranger of "ESTE ES EL DIA" in The New Century Hymnal

Lefferd M. A. Haughwout

1873 - 1952 Person Name: Lefferd M. A. Haughwout, 1873-1952 Scripture: Psalm 118:22 Translator of "The Church's One Foundation (Un Solo Fundamento)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

George Ratcliffe Woodward

1848 - 1934 Scripture: Psalm 118:24 Harmonizer of "ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Educated at Caius College in Cambridge, England, George R. Woodward (b. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, 1848; d. Highgate, London, England, 1934) was ordained in the Church of England in 1874. He served in six parishes in London, Norfolk, and Suffolk. He was a gifted linguist and translator of a large number of hymns from Greek, Latin, and German. But Woodward's theory of translation was a rigid one–he held that the translation ought to reproduce the meter and rhyme scheme of the original as well as its contents. This practice did not always produce singable hymns; his translations are therefore used more often today as valuable resources than as congregational hymns. With Charles Wood he published three series of The Cowley Carol Book (1901, 1902, 1919), two editions of Songs of Syon (1904, 1910), An Italian Carol Book (1920), and the Cambridge Carol Book

Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Scripture: Psalm 118:15 Composer of "LANCASHIRE" in The Lutheran Hymnal Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman