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Carolyn Jennings

b. 1936 Person Name: Carolyn Jennings, b. 1936 Scripture: Isaiah 12:2 Composer of "SONG OF PRAISE" in Lutheran Service Book Carolyn Jennings (born August 16, 1936) is a Professor Emerita of Music at St. Olaf College where she taught for many years and also served in administrative roles, including Chair of the Music Department and Associate Dean for the Fine Arts. Carolyn Jennings is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music magna cum laude and the University of Michigan where she received her Master of Music degree as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She also served as a church musician for over thirty years, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Northfield, Minnesota. Over many years she has served on arts advisory panels, as a workshop presenter, and in leadership roles in several professional organizations. She has been active in promoting the use of inclusive language in texts for singing, and has worked to heighten awareness of how language shapes as well as expresses thought. Her compositions and arrangements include works for voices, orchestra, and piano. She particularly enjoys composing for voices. Among her many commissioned works are a children's musical, a choral song cycle, a composition for the Minnesota Aids Quilt Songbook, and many compositions for church, school and community choirs. She has received major grants from the Composers Commissioning Program through the Minnesota Composers Forum. Choral compositions and arrangements by Carolyn Jennings are widely sung by church, community, college and school choirs. Her publications include over a hundred choral compositions and arrangements, a number of text translations, contributions to several hymnals, and articles for professional journals. She has been active in the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Teachers National Association, the Minnesota Composers Forum, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and as a guest conductor and workshop leader. --apimusic.org/composers

Maud Frazer Jackson

1873 - 1950 Person Name: M. Frazer Scripture: Isaiah 12:2 Author of "I will Trust, and not be Afraid" in Sacred Songs No. 1 Maud Frazer Jackson USA 1873-1950. It is surmised she lived in PA and/or NJ. She was a religious author, poet, and music compiler, who published her collections of music, including 400 hymns called “Hymns about forgiveness!”, “Wayside Song” (1922), and “Starlight & lamplight” (1928). Her poems were sometimes furnished to newspapers around the country and printed. John Perry

Tony Rubi

b. 1949 Person Name: Tony Rubi, n. 1949 Scripture: Isaiah 12:2-6 Composer of "[¡Vean cómo es Él, el Dios que me salva!]" in Flor y Canto (3rd ed.)

Manuel F. García

b. 1947 Person Name: Manuel F. García, n. 1947 Scripture: Isaiah 12:2-6 Composer of "[Ustedes sacarán agua]" in Flor Y Canto (2nd ed.)

Rafael Montalvo

b. 1957 Person Name: Rafael Montalvo, 1957- Scripture: Isaiah 12:4-5 Author of "My Gratitued Now Accept, O God (Gracias, Señor)" in Community of Christ Sings

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Scripture: Isaiah 12 Author of "God Shall My Comfort Be" in Scripture Song Database Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule, 1958- Scripture: Isaiah 12:2-6 Author of "God has a table" in Together in Song

Jaime Cortez

b. 1963 Person Name: Jaime Cortez, b. 1963 Scripture: Isaiah 12 Author of "Advent Litany (Letanía de Adviento)" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.)

Oscar López Marroquín

b. 1937 Person Name: Oscar López M. Scripture: Isaiah 12 Author of "Navidad Latina" in Celebremos Su Gloria

Joseph P. Holbrook

1822 - 1888 Person Name: J. P. Holbrook Scripture: Isaiah 12:2 Composer of "REFUGE" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson