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Emily R. Brink

b. 1940 Meter: 10.6.10.5 Composer (descant) of "OF ALL THE PEOPLE" in Songs for Life Emily R. Brink is a Senior Research Fellow of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Adjunct Professor of Church Music and Worship at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her main areas of responsibility are conference planning and global resources. She is program manager of the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship, which draws more than 70 presenters and 1600 participants from around the world. She also travels widely to lecture and to learn about worship in different parts of the world, especially in Asia, where she has lectured in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan. Her areas of interest include congregational song from all times and places; psalmody; hymnal editing. She was editor of four hymnals and consults with a wide range of churches on worship renewal issues. Dr. Brink is active in the American Guild of Organists, serving in both local and national offices, as well as in the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (president from 1990 1992) and named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in 2004 in recognition of distinguished services to hymnody and hymnology. --internal.calvinseminary.edu/

Bertus Frederick Polman

1945 - 2013 Person Name: Bert Polman Meter: 10.6.10.5 Author of "Jesus Called to Peter" in Songs for Life Bert Frederick Polman (b. Rozenburg, Zuid Holland, the Netherlands, 1945; d. Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 1, 2013) was chair of the Music Department at Calvin College and senior research fellow for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Dr. Bert studied at Dordt College (BA 1968), the University of Minnesota (MA 1969, PhD in musicology 1981), and the Institute for Christian Studies. Dr. Bert was a longtime is professor of music at Redeemer College in Ancaster, Ontario, and organist at Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Waterdown, Ontario. His teaching covered a wide range of courses in music theory, music history, music literature, and worship, and Canadian Native studies. His research specialty was Christian hymnody. He was also an organist, a frequent workshop leader at music and worship conferences, and contributor to journals such as The Hymn and Reformed Worship. Dr. Bert was co-editor of the Psalter Hymnal Handbook (1989), and served on the committees that prepared Songs for Life (1994) and Sing! A New Creation (2001), both published by CRC Publications. Emily Brink

Anders Frostenson

1906 - 2006 Meter: 10.6.10.5 Translator of "Many Are the Lightbeams" in Chalice Hymnal

Saint Cyprian

205 - 258 Person Name: Cyprian of Carthage Meter: 10.6.10.5 Author of "Many Are the Lightbeams" in Chalice Hymnal

Wim ter Burg

1914 - 1995 Meter: 10.6.10.5 Composer (melody) of "OF ALL THE PEOPLE" in Songs for Life

Len Lythgoe

Meter: 10.6.10.5 Arranger of "LAGORNA ÄR MANGA" in Voices United

Olle Widestrand

Meter: 10.6.10.5 Composer of "MANY ARE THE LIGHTBEAMS" in Chalice Hymnal

A. Eugene Ellsworth

Meter: 10.6.10.5 Harmonizer of "MANY ARE THE LIGHTBEAMS" in Chalice Hymnal

David Lewis

1916 - 1995 Meter: 10.6.10.5 Translator (into English of "Many Are the Lightbeams" in Voices United Arthur David Lewis was born in Liverpool, England in 1916. He became a minister in the Presbyterian Church of England in 1948. He worked as a translator at the World Council of Churches in Geneva from 1970 until he retired, when he continued to work as a freelance translator. He returned to live in England in 1994 and died in 1995. Mary Swale (daughter)