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Michael Joncas
b. 1951 Author of "Sprinkling Song (Canto Para La Aspersión)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song
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Howard Hughes
b. 1930 Person Name: Howard Hughes, SM Composer of "[Cleanse us, Lord, from all our sins]" in Worship (3rd ed.) In his letter of invitation to Brother Howard Hughes, the President of NPM, J. Michael McMahon, declared, “Board Members agreed unanimously that you have created compositions for the liturgy that are beautiful, delightful, and spirited, and that have fostered strong participation by the worshiping assembly as they pray the texts you have set to music.”
The Marianist composer’s first published work was “Mass for Peace” which appeared in Peoples Mass Book, 1964 edition, released by World Library Publications. As liturgical celebration developed in the English vernacular following the Second Vatican Council, Brother Howard produced a wide range of liturgical compositions published by WLP, GIA, ICEL, OCP, LTP, CFCW, FDLC, USCC, RP, NPM, Presbyterian Church USA, and The United Methodist Hymnal Companion. And at the age of 81 he is still composing and accepting commissions for special events.
A Marianist religious for 64 years, this distinguished liturgical musician and composer began as a high teacher of French and director of high school choral groups. In addition Brother Howard also sang in symphonic choruses in New York and in Baltimore. He commented that “conducting high school choral concerts and singing with adult symphonic choruses have been a great help in learning to write music.”
The National Association of Pastoral Musicians will honor Brother Howard Hughes, S.M., as Pastoral Musician of the Year when it gathers for its national convention in Washington, DC, July 29 – August 2, 2012.
Currently the awardee serves as organist and music director for the Marianist Center in Cupertino, CA.
--http://www.dsj.org/being-catholic/worship
Howard Hughes
Ronald F. Krisman
Translator of "Sprinkling Song (Canto Para La Aspersión)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song
Ronald F. Krisman
Joseph Roff
1910 - 1993 Composer of "[Cleanse us, O Lord, from all our sins]" in Worship (3rd ed.) Joseph Roff enjoyed a unique vantage point in his work as composer of church music. That position was constructed over decades as his double career of musician and priest evolved in the Roman Catholic Church. As a senior member of the presbyterate of the Diocese of Brooklyn (he was ordained in England in 1935), he wrote for the liturgy of the church both before and after the Second Vatican Council. With well over a thousand compositions (with over twenty-five publishers) behind him, he continued to offer the church steadfast service as he composed anthems and hymns, psalm settings, and acclamations.
An example of his commitment to serve the Church when the Church placed new demands on the composer, he published in 1966 a four-volume collection of harmonized settings of the propers for Sundays and feast days, a welcome relief to the tedium of psalm tone propers that were so prevalent in choir lofts at the time. Church musician found in his settings well-constructed harmonies and satisfying melodic lines that took into account the limited musical resource of the majority of the parish choirs. Such a control of harmony and theory is not acquired by accident but learned by training and artistic discipline. Father Roff achieved both during his early music education, which took him to the University of Toronto, where he earned a doctorate in music in 1948. While he pursued his studies at the university, he was student of Healey Willan, the foremost North American church music composer of the mid-century.
In addition to his sacred works, he boasts a lengthy list of orchestral compositions, as well as an operetta, Lady of
Mexico, which was performed at the Blackfriars Theater in Manhattan in 1967.
Whether he wrote a score for a symphonic ensemble or composed an anthem for a liturgical vocal ensemble, Roff consistently exerted the care and skill that characterized his early compositions. With such a history of successful music for the church, he can be seen as the never-tiring servant of the church, eager to write, to create, and to praise God.
Joseph Roff died on July 10, 1993, at age 82, just three days after the fifty-eighth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
In a way, Roff's passing marks the end of an era at GIA. His first published work was issued in the early days of the Gregorian Institute of America. Since then, he published over 100 editions with GIA, the majority of which are still in print.
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Joseph Roff
