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Composer of "[The windows of Heaven are open]" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
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Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
b. 1953 Person Name: Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, b. 1953 Arranger of "[The windows of heaven are open]" in African American Heritage Hymnal Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist.
Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University.
She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild of Organists, George Shirley, the late Duke Ellington, and her sister, the late Joy Simpson, arranged music for Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and the Porgy and Bess Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with musical organizations such as Philadelphia's National Opera Ebony (later renamed Opera North).
Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Curenton is Music Director of the Washington Performing Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel and an associate of the Smithsonian Institution. She has given lectures and participated in workshops on early 18th-century black religious music and the music of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era.
--en.wikipedia.org
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
John R. Rice
1895 - 1980 Arranger of "[The windows of Heaven are open]" in Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) John R. Rice was born in Cooke County, Texas, December 11, 1895.
Pastor of Baptist churches in Dallas and Shamrock, Texas, Dr. Rice started about a dozen others from his primary work as an evangelist. In the 1930s and 1940s, he held huge citywide crusades in Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Seattle and other major Metropolitan centers.
While pastor in Dallas in 1934, he founded THE SWORD OF THE LORD. The first printing, September 28, 1934, ran 5,000 copies which were handed out on the streets of Dallas, Texas. In 1940 the Sword of the Lord was moved to Wheaton, Illinois where it remained for the next 23 years. In 1963 the opportunity came to purchase the present location on Bridge Avenue in downtown Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
For 21 years Dr. Rice was heard weekly on the Voice of Revival—a 30-minute radio broadcast on 69 stations in 29 states, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands. He wrote many songs, which are found in a compilation, as well as in the Sword of the Lord hymnal, "Soul Stirring Songs and Hymns."
On Dec. 29, 1980, Dr. Rice graduated to Heaven. He is buried at the Bill Rice Ranch Cemetery (on Route 96) seven miles west of Murfreesboro.
By permission of Sword of the Lord Ministries
John R. Rice
