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BETELEHEMA IKI E

Author: Edward Kahale, 1891-; Phillips Brooks, 1836-1893 Appears in 2 hymnals

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ST. LOUIS

Appears in 460 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lewis H. Redner, 1831-1908 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33323 54621 712 Used With Text: BETELEHEMA IKI E

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Betelehema iki e

Author: Phillips Brooks; Kahale Hymnal: Leo Hoonani Hou #104 (1967) Languages: Hawaiian Tune Title: [Betelehema iki e]

BETELEHEMA IKI E

Author: Phillips Brooks, 1836-1893; Edward Kahale, 1891- Hymnal: Na Himeni Haipule Hawaii #87 (1972) Languages: Hawaiian Tune Title: ST. LOUIS

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Phillips Brooks

1835 - 1893 Author of "Betelehema iki e" in Leo Hoonani Hou Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Lewis H. Redner

1831 - 1908 Composer of "[Betelehema iki e]" in Leo Hoonani Hou Lewis Henry Redner (1831-1908) was born in Philadelphia, where he became a real estate agent and served on weekends as an organist and Sunday School Superintendent. He spent nineteen years at Holy Trinity church where Phillip Brooks was rector, and is credited with increasing attendance at the Sunday School from thirty-one to more than a thousand. In 1868 Brooks asked him to write a tune for his new text for children inspired by his recent trip to Bethlehem. Redner composed the tune the night before it was to be sung in worship on Sunday morning. The text and tune were first published in 1894 in The Church Porch, where the tune was named ST. LOUIS, possibly after the composer’s name. Redner is remembered today because of this one tune that has remained a Christmas favorite. Emily Brink

Edward Kahale

b. 1891 Person Name: Kahale Translator of "Betelehema iki e" in Leo Hoonani Hou
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