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Martin Shaw
1875 - 1958 Composer of "LITTLE CORNARD" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music.
Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915).
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Martin Shaw
Kermit Moldenhauer
b. 1949 Person Name: Kermit G. Moldenhauer, b. 1949 Composer of "FREDRICK PLACE" in Christian Worship (1993)
Kermit Moldenhauer
Paul Akers Richardson
b. 1951 Person Name: Paul A. Richardson Composer of "SYDNOR" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal Dr. Richardson's principal area of research and writing is hymnology (congregational song). Author of Singing Baptists: Studies in Baptist Hymnody in America, with Harry Eskew and David W. Music (Church Street Press, 1994); and "I Will Sing the Wondrous Story": A History of Baptist Hymnody in America, with David W. Music (Mercer University Press, 2008).
Bachelor of Music (voice performance and church music), Mars Hill College; Master of Church Music (voice performance), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Doctor of Musical Arts (church music: voice performance and musicology), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary postdoctoral studies, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School/ Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary; Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; Regents Park College, University of Oxford.
--See Samford University School of the Arts bio, 03 July 2014.
Paul Akers Richardson
James V. Lee
1892 - 1959 Person Name: James V. Lee, 1892-1959 Composer of "EASTVIEW" in Worship and Rejoice James Vernon Lee (b. Hove, Sussex, England, 1892; d. Southampton, England, 1959) originally composed EASTVIEW for the text "Rejoice, the Lord Is King" for his mother's eightieth birthday. Lee was an officer in the Brighton Battalion of the Boys' Brigade from 1910 to 1914. After service in the British armed forces during World War I he was the bursar at Caterham College (1919-1939). He also worked as a professional magician, earning the Gold Star of the Magic Circle in 1940. Lee served as organist in several churches and composed a number of hymn tunes as well as Masonic graces.
--Psalter Hymnal Handbook
James V. Lee
David Mowbray
b. 1938 Author of "Lord of Our Growing Years" in The Presbyterian Hymnal David Mowbray (b. 1938) was born in Wallington, Surrey, England. He attended Dulwich College, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge where he read English. He gained an MA at Trinity in Bristol and a BD at London (External). Ordained in the Church of England, he was a curate at St. Giles in Northampton and at St. Mary's in Walford. Appointed Vicar of Broxborne, Herts in 1970 in 1984, he became Vicar of All Saints, Hertfordshire. In 1991 he became Vicar of St. Matthew's Darley Abbey, Derby, where he serves to this day. He has been writing hymns since 1977 and most of his texts are represented by Jubilate Hymns. Three of his hymn texts have been included in Hope's new hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001).
--www.hopepublishing.com
David Mowbray
