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Robert Fleming

1921 - 1976 Person Name: Robert J. B. Fleming Composer of "CONCORD (Fleming)" in The United Methodist Hymnal

b. 1936 Person Name: Frances W. Davis Author of "Let There Be Light" in The United Methodist Hymnal Davis, Frances Mina (Wheeler). (Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 18, 1936-- ). Anglican. University of Manitoba, B.A., 1958; University of Toronto, M.A., 1962. In 1959, she married Dan Bryan Davis. She has contributed prose and verse to many Canadian periodicals; also to a collection of hymns privately published for use at St. George's Church, Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, from which one of her hymns found its way into The Hymn Book, (1971). --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives

Dietrich Werner

Translator (German) of "Let there be light" in Agape

David Hurd

b. 1950 Person Name: David Hurd, b. 1950 Composer of "SPRAGUE" in Worship (3rd ed.) David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1950) was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. In 1987 David Hurd was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The following year he received honorary doctorates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. His I Sing As I Arise Today, the collected hymn tunes of David Hurd, was published in 2010. Bert Polman and Emily Brink