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Albert E. Brumley
1905 - 1977 Author of "I'll Fly Away" in The Celebration Hymnal Born: October 29, 1905, near Spiro, Oklahoma. Died: November 15, 1977, Springfield, Missouri. Buried: Fox Cemetery, Powell, Missouri.
Brumley attended the Hartford Musical Institute in Hartford, Arkansas, and sang with the Hartford Quartet. He went on to teach at singing schools in the Ozarks, and lived most of his life in Powell, Missouri. He worked for 34 years a staff writer for the Hartford and Stamps/Baxter publishing companies, then founded the Albert E. Brumley & Sons Music Company and Country Gentlemen Music, and bought the Hartford Music Company. He wrote over 800 Gospel and other songs during his life; the Country Song Writers Hall of Fame inducted him in 1970.
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Albert E. Brumley
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
b. 1953 Person Name: Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, b. 1953 Arranger of "I'LL FLY AWAY" 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.
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Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
Lillian M. Bowles
1884 - 1949 Person Name: L. M. Bowles Arranger of "[Some glad morning when this life is o'er]" in The New National Baptist Hymnal Lillian M. Bowles was an African American publisher of gospel music.
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Theodore R. Frye
1899 - 1963 Person Name: Theo. R. Frye Arranger of "[Some glad morning when this life is o'er]" in The New National Baptist Hymnal Frye, Theodore R.; b. Sept. 10, 1899, Fayette, MS, d. Aug. 26, 1963, Chicago, IL; gospel pianist, composer, and publisher)
Theodore R. Frye
