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Joy F. Patterson

b. 1931 Person Name: Joy F. Patterson, 1931- Topics: Continuing Revelation Author of "Holy Spirit, Teacher, Friend" in Community of Christ Sings Joy F. Patterson (b. 1931), of Wassau, Wisconsin, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church who has written many texts and tunes; twenty-nine are collected in Come, You People of the Promise (Hope Publishing, Co., 1994); another collection, Teach Our Eyes New Ways of Seeing, was published in 2005 (Selah). Patterson has enjoyed a varied career as a French professor, homemaker, and claim representative for the Social Security Administration. Sing! A New Creation

Sally Ann Morris

Person Name: Sally Ann Morris, 1952- Topics: Continuing Revelation Composer of "NEW WORLD" in Community of Christ Sings

Gioacchino A. Rossini

1792 - 1868 Person Name: Gioacchino A. Rossini, 1792-1868 Topics: Continuing Revelation Composer of "MANOAH" in Community of Christ Sings Gioacchino A. Rossini; b. 1792, Pesaro; d. 1868, Ruelle near Parise Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

David Hugh Jones

1900 - 1983 Person Name: David H. Jones, 1900-1983 Topics: Continuing Revelation Harmonizer of "W ZLOBIE LEZY" in Community of Christ Sings David Hugh Jones (1900-1983) Born: 1900, Jackson, Ohio. Jones attended the Guilford Organ School, New York City (graduated 1920), and the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau, France, and received honorary degrees from Washington and Jefferson, and Beaver Colleges. In 1924, he became a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists. He played the organ at churches in Portsmouth and Dayton, Ohio; and in New York City, Rome, and Brooklyn, New York. From 1934 until retiring in 1979, he was the Miller Chapel organist and choir director at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. In 1937, he founded the seminary’s touring choir, which sang at thousands of churches in America, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Caribbean islands, Japan, and Korea. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

A. Royce Eckhardt

b. 1937 Person Name: A. Royce Eckhardt, 1937- Topics: Continuing Revelation Composer of "RICHMOND BEACH" in Community of Christ Sings Royce Eckhardt has served as a director of music, organist, conductor, composer, arranger, hymnal editor, teacher, and hymnologist for over fifty years. He has served Evangelical Covenant churches as minister of music and organist in Seattle, New Britain (CT), Winnetka, and Hinsdale, Illinois, and also the Winnetka Presbyterian Church. Mr. Eckhardt earned a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance in 1960 from North Park College, Chicago, and a Master of Music degree in liturgical music at Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford in 1972. Royce joined the music faculty at Seattle Pacific College in 1961, teaching organ, music theory and literature courses and directing small choral ensembles. He served as adjunct professor of church music at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, specializing in hymnology and also serving as chapel organist. Mr. Eckhardt was a member of the Covenant Hymnal Commission that produced The Covenant Hymnal (1973). In 1990 he was appointed to the Special Hymnal Commission that compiled and published The Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook (1996), serving as music editor. He is represented in the hymnal with 47 arrangements, original tunes, and descants. His many hymn arrangements, harmonizations and tunes appear in eight American hymnals. Royce also served as music director of the Covenant Ministers Chorus from 1985 to 2005, leading the Chorus on a concert tour to Sweden and Germany in 1990 and on a second concert tour in 2001 to Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Germany. He has led many workshops and seminars throughout the country on worship and church music related topics, is a published composer of organ and choral works, a board member of North Shore American Guild of Organists, board member of The Bach Week Festival, and a member of The Hymn Society. Royce Eckhardt