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Robert J. Batastini

b. 1942 Person Name: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Topics: Understanding Arranger of "[Make me a channel of your peace]" in RitualSong Robert J. Batastini is the retired vice president and senior editor of GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago. Bob has over fifty-five years of service in pastoral music ministry, having served several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago and one in the Diocese of Joliet. He served as executive editor and project director for the Worship hymnals (three editions), Gather hymnals (three editions), Catholic Community Hymnal, and as executive editor of RitualSong. In 1993 he became the first recipient of the Father Lawrence Heimann Citation for lifetime contribution to church music and liturgy in the U.S., awarded by St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana, and was named "Pastoral Musician of the Year-2000" by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). At its 2006 conference, he was named a Fellow of the Hymn society in the United States and Canada. In his retirement he is active in the music ministry of St. Francis de Sales Parish, Holland, MI. Nancy Naber, from www.giamusic.com/bios/
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Jim Reilly

b. 1943 Person Name: Jim Reilly, 1943- Topics: Wisdom and Understanding Author of "A Core of Silence" in Singing the Living Tradition Jim Reilly was born in 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in Universalist churches in New Jersey and Syracuse, NY. He wrote a number of hymns while Director of Music in the 1980's at First Universalist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but the others have never entered a published hymnal. He is currently (2023) Music Director Emeritus at Mindekirken, Minnesota's only remaining Norwegian language church. Reilly is a tenor, pianist, composer, and sometime poet. Jim Reilly
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Monroe C. Beardsley

1915 - 1985 Person Name: Monroe Beardsley, b. 1915 Topics: Wisdom and Understanding Author of "From All the Fret and Fever of the Day" in Singing the Living Tradition
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Arthur Noyes

1880 - 1958 Person Name: Arthur Noyes, 1880-1958 Topics: Wisdom and Understanding Author of "Knowledge, They Say" in Singing the Living Tradition
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Lee M. Baldwin

1906 - 1982 Person Name: Lee M. Baldwin, 1906-1982 Topics: Understanding Author of "O God, Empower Us" in Worship (3rd ed.)
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