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Harold W. Friedell
1905 - 1958 Person Name: Harold W. Friedell, 1905-1958 Meter: 7.7.7.7.5.7.6.7 Composer of "FINLAY" in Pilgrim Hymnal Harold Friedell (May 11, 1905, Jamaica, Queens, NY- February 17, 1958, Hasting-On-Hudson, NY) was an American organist, choirmaster, teacher, and composer. At an early age, he served as organist at First Methodist Episcopal Church (Jamaica, Queens) and studied organ with Clement Gale and David McK. Williams. He later served as organist at Calvary Church (New York), organist and choirmaster at Saint John’s Church (Jersey City, N.J.), organist and choirmaster at Calvary Church (New York), and finally organist and master of the choir at Saint Bartholomew’s Church (New York). Friedell also taught on the faculty of the Union Theological Seminary School of Sacred Music (New York). As a composer, Friedell composed works for organ, orchestra, and choir, as well as hymn tunes, descants, and music for solo voice.
Friedell composed the choral anthem "Draw us in the Spirit's Tether" in 1949, from which the hymn tune "Union Seminary" was taken."
Jimmy Thompson
Harold W. Friedell
E. E. Hewitt
1851 - 1920 Meter: 7.7.7.7.5.7.6.7 Author of "O Be Joyful In the Lord" Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
E. E. Hewitt
Curtis Beach
1914 - 1993 Meter: 7.7.7.7.5.7.6.7 Author of "O Be Joyful in the Lord!" in The Worshipbook Beach, Curtis. (Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 9, 1914--February 23, 1993, Bangor, Maine). Comes from several generations of ministers. He was educated at Harvard (B.A. 1935), Boston University School of Theology (S.T.B. 1941), and the University of Southern California (Ph.D. 1957). Minister of the Neighborhood Church, Pasedena (1943-1959), and the Smithfield United Church in Pittsburgh from 1959-1975. Minister of First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, Maine, 1975-1980.
--Carlton R. Young, DNAH Archives
Curtis Beach
Charlotte Mathewson Lockwood
Person Name: Charlotte M. Lockwood Meter: 7.7.7.7.5.7.6.7 Arranger of "ROCK OF AGES" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) A classical composer, Lockwood apparently collaborated with Clarence Dickinson and others in "Danse macabre, Op. 40 (arr. for 2 organs)".
Charlotte Mathewson Lockwood
