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Eliza M. Sherman

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.8.7 Author of "Oh, The Precious Love Of Jesus" in The Cyber Hymnal

1816 - 1868 Person Name: William Batchelder Bradbury, 1816-1868 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.8.7 Composer of "MONTCLAIR" in The Cyber Hymnal William Batchelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry

David L. Ives

Person Name: David Livingstone Ives Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.8.7 Composer of "IVES" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration

Ian Kellam

b. 1933 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.8.7 Composer of "JUBILEE BRUNELLE" in Break Forth in Joyous Song Ian Kellam was born in Sheffield, England in 1933. As a young chorister he studied with Dr. Tustin Baker, organist at Sheffield Cathedral. He later studied with Herbert Sumsion at Gloucester Cathedral, and then with Howard Ferguson at the Royal Academy of Music in London. While there, he won the Langrish Award for choral writing, and in 1969, the Church of England Music Society prize for anthems. His first published pieces, written at age 16, were two Christmas carols for Solo Voice and Piano but, after a boyhood steeped in the traditions of church choral music, it is perhaps not surprising that much of his output seeks to further those traditions. To date his major writings comprise nine choral and orchestral cantatas and numerous smaller works: anthems, motets, carols, and settings of the morning and evening canticles. These include "The Southwark Service" (Magnificat and Nunc dimittis), commissioned for the 750th Anniversary of the founding of Southwark Cathedral, London, and the "Gloucester Te Deum", commissioned for the 13th Centenary Celebrations of the founding of Gloucester Cathedral. He has also composed song cycles, instrumental works, and much music for children, including two operas and shorter works. "Balaam", a setting of a long poem by Charles Causley, for Children's Choir and Harp, was commissioned as a companion piece to Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" for a concert at the Aldeburgh Festival. He has written many theatre scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company in both Stratford-upon-Avon and in London, for productions at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and other open-air Shakespeare productions for the annual summer festivals at Ludlow Castle. Other venues include the Old Vic in London, the Comédie Français in Paris, the Moscow Arts Theatre, Broadway in New York, and numerous other worldwide locations. Writing for voice or voices, whether it be for a local children's choir, large choral society, solo song cycles, church and/or Cathedral choirs, or congregational singing, remains his chief pleasure and inspiration. Ian lives in a small 18th-century stone-built cottage in the Cotswolds of England, with two inseparable friends--a Jack Russell terrier and a large ginger tomcat. --www.morningstarmusic.com/

Barbara J. Owen

b. 1933 Person Name: Barbara J. Owen, b. 1933 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.8.7 Versifier of "As the Restless Hart Is Longing" in When Breaks the Dawn Owen, Barbara. (Utica, New York, January 25, 1933-- ). Educated at Westminster Choir College (Mus.B.) and Boston University (Mus.M.). Served as organist of several churches, and in 1963 was organist and choir director of the First Religious Society (Unitarian) of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Edited organ and choral music and wrote books on the organ. Active in the A.G.O. and other professional organizations. Appointed a contributing editor of the Journal of Church Music in 1978; also published in The Hymn. --Information from a letter from Barbara Owen to Leonard Ellinwood, 19 July 1979, DNAH Archives. ============================ Barbara J. Owen is Minister of Music in the First Congregational Church, Portland, Connecticut. Born in Utica, New York, she has spent most of her life in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended the Hartt College of Music in Hartford for two years, and then went to the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, where she received her bachelor of Music degree in 1955. Her musical experience includes service in other churches in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. --Consider Your Call: Three More New Hymns by Youth for Youth, 1957. Used by permission.

Maro Loomis Bartlett

1847 - 1919 Person Name: Maro Lummis Bartlett Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.8.7 Composer of "AHMEDABAD" in The Cyber Hymnal Bartlett was born on October 25, 1847 in Browhelm, Ohio. He was a choral conductor, composed many popular tunes, and wrote several books on music. As of 1905, he was Director of the Des Moines, Iowa, College of Music. He died in 1919 in Des Moines, Iowa. Sources: Hughes, p. 307 Nutter, p. 453 Price, p. 195 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch) ============= The publication Bartlett's Music Reader (1901) states that the editor, M.L. Bartlett, was "President of the Des Moines, Ia., Music College and formerly Teacher of Music in the Schools of New York City." This same M.L. Bartlett edited The Sunday School Serial. --