O Hear Our Cry, O Lord

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O hear our cry, O Lord

Author: Fred R. Anderson (1986)
Tune: VINEYARD HAVEN
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: Recording

Piano/Organ
	The Coral Ridge Festival - Hymn Collecti…

Choral
	Break Forth in Joyous Song

Instrumental
	Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart: Woodwind Quin…

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Author: Fred R. Anderson

FRED R. ANDERSON is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, a liturgical theologian, and a recognized hymn writer whose hymn and psalm texts appear in Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world. —Singing God's Psalms (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016) His collections of psalm paraphrases include Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise (1986) and Singing God's Psalms (2016). Go to person page >

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First Line:	O hear our cry, O Lord
Title:	O Hear Our Cry, O Lord
Author:	Fred R. Anderson (1986)
Meter:	6.6.8.6 with refrain
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1986 Fred R. Anderson; from "Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise"

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Tune

VINEYARD HAVEN

Richard Dirksen (PHH 148) composed VINEYARD HAVEN in 1974 for the text "Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart" as a processional choral anthem for the installation of Presiding Bishop John Maury Allin at the Washington (D.C.) Cathedral, also known as the National Cathedral. The anthem includes various harmoniza…

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REDEMPTOR

MARION (Messiter)

Arthur H. Messiter (b. Frome, Somersetshire, England, 1834; d. New York, NY, 1916) composed MARION for this text in 1883 and named it after his wife [sic. mother]. The tune was published in the Hymnal with Music as Used in Trinity Church (1893), a hymnal compiled by Messiter during his long term of…

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