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[I wait for you in silence]

[I wait for you in silence]

Composer: A. Royce Eckhardt
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: A. Royce Eckhardt

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… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [I wait for you in silence]
Composer: A. Royce Eckhardt
Incipit: 13453 21
Key: d minor
Copyright: © 1996 A. Royce Eckhardt

Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

The Covenant Hymnal #782

The Covenant Hymnal #785

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