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Northern Christian Radio

Sacred Favorites Radio is a network airing traditional Christian Hymns as well as some Christian talk and teaching programs, such as Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, Back to the Bible with Woodrow Kroll, and Grace to You with John MacArthur.


2007 Super League Grand Final

Katherine Jenkins was forced to withdraw herself from the pre-match entertainment due to a flu bug, her replacement was Russell Watson, who performed the Grand Final hymn, Jerusalem.

Ahasverus Fritsch

Johann Sebastian Bach based his chorale cantata Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, for Epiphany 1725 on a hymn in six stanzas by Fritsch and used single stanzas in other cantatas.

All Saints' Day

In English-speaking countries, the festival is traditionally celebrated with the hymn "For All the Saints" by Walsham How.

All Things Fair

The original title is taken from the Swedish hymn "Den blomstertid nu kommer", which is traditionally sung in schools before closing for the summer holiday.

Amphryssos

In Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo" (48) Apollo tends Admetus' herds by the Amphryssos during his punishment for killing the Cyclopes.

Beulah Land

Popular hymn writers of the day would visit each summer: Ira D. Sankey, William H. Doane, William J. Kirkpatrick, John R. Sweeney, Eliza E. Hewitt, Fanny Crosby, and others.

Buddhist liturgy

In traditional Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, lay practitioners may also chant a hymn written by Shinran called the Shoshinge, which is not a sutra per se, but expounds the lineage with which Jodo Shinshu owes its beliefs.

Christos anesti

Paschal troparion, hymn for the celebration of Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

Gar Heard

This feat is commonly known as "The Shot," or "The Shot Heard 'Round the World," in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn," which was written about the Battle of Lexington.

God Will Lift Up Your Head

The song is a remake of a traditional hymn of the same name that was written by the 17th-century German hymnwriter Paul Gerhardt.

Halls of Montezuma

"Marines' Hymn", the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, which starts "From the halls of Montezuma"

History of Eastern Christianity

The church has the rest of the liturgical ritual being rooted in the Jewish Passover, Siddur, Seder, and synagogue services, including the singing of hymns (especially the Psalms) and reading from the Scriptures (Old and New Testament).

Hymn of the day

According to Carl Schalk, the hymn of the day came out of the singing of the gradual which is sung before the epistle reading.

Indelible Grace

They have released eight CDs to date, including the first one simply titled Indelible Grace, taken from a line in the Augustus Toplady hymn "A Debtor to Mercy Alone."

Israel ben Moses Najara

Ketubbat Yisrael (with Joseph Jaabez's Ma'amar ha-Aḥdut, n.p., 1794), a hymn which, in the kabalistic fashion, represents the relationship between God and Israel as one between man and wife (it was composed for the Feast of Pentecost)

James P. Carrell

"Harmony Grove" is now the tune most associated with the John Newton hymn "Amazing Grace", and for many years Carrell and Clayton were credited as the composers.

Joseph P. Knapp

His father was a past president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother was a hymn writer, credited with over 500 hymns, most notably "Blessed Assurance" with Fanny Crosby.

K. Lee Scott

Lee Scott (born 1950 in Valley, Alabama) is an internationally known teacher, musician, conductor and composer of sacred music, choral music and hymns, residing in Birmingham, Alabama.

Kesh temple hymn

Robert D. Biggs translated an exceptionally archaic version of the hymn from Tell Abu Salabikh that he dated to around 2600 BC.

Mansions of the Lord

"Mansions of the Lord" is a hymn written by Randall Wallace and set to the music of Nick Glennie-Smith.

Marangal na Dalit ng Katagalugan

The Marangál na Dalit ng̃ Katagalugan (English title: Noble Hymn of the Tagalogs) was the historic national anthem of the Tagalog Republic and is considered the first national anthem of the Philippines.

María Cristina Bridge

Later the Orfeón Donostiarra and the Choir of the Municipal Academy of Music of San Sebastián consisted of 110 children, sang a hymn composed for the occasion by the master Santesteban.

Maxelende Ganade

Justino 'Ning" Romea, a writer of the Bohol Chronicle and composer of the RPC Song (now the UB Hymn) and the Bohol Provincial School of Nursing Hymn, was commissioned to pen the Bohol Provincial Hymn.

Monk's Music

The first song "Abide With Me"—a hymn by W. H. Monk—is an austere rendition played only by the septet's horn section.

My Brother Is an Only Child

Duce!', and their actions constantly tending to violence, the communists are hardly less so: Schiller's words in the final movement of Beethoven's choral symphony are replaced by a hymn in praise of Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin; a meeting of activists consists of a room full of bearded men all shouting at once and only agreeing when the time comes to shout a slogan.

My Song Is Love Unknown

Francis Pott, an English composer, set this hymn in 2002 for the Southern Cathedrals Festival as a 17'30" choral piece, performed by Tenebrae (choir), with Jeremy Filsell at the organ.

Mysterious Ways

"Mysterious Ways," hymn by William Cowper (1731-1800), originally titled "Light Shining out of Darkness"

O Little Town of Bethlehem

William Rhys-Herbert included a new hymn-tune and harmonization as part of his 1909 cantata, Bethany.

O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

"O the Deep Deep, Love of Jesus" is a well-known Christian hymn, written by the London merchant Samuel Trevor Francis.

One Oclarit

One Oclarit (born Onecimo Oclarit in 1951), usually known as One, is a blind Filipino lyricist, pianist, composer and hymnist best known for his Cebuano Christian hymns.

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

It is also the School hymn for King Edward VI School, Southampton, which Isaac Watts himself attended, the peal of the Southampton Civic Centre clock tower and The Laidlaw Memorial School and Junior College, Ketti.

Palms of Victory

Perhaps John B. Matthias was well known for singing the anonymous religious ballad or folk hymn (to use George Pullen Jackson’s categories), and so received credit for writing it.

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour

The hymn has been recorded by number of artists, including Reggie Houston, Cyrus Chestnut, Bill Gaither, and Lyle Lovett.

Processional hymn

A processional hymn is a chant, hymn or other music sung during the Procession, usually at the start of a Christian service although occasionally during the service itself.

Psalm 148

It was also used as the setting for the hymn tune Darwall's 148th by John Darwall.

Reid N. Nibley

Nibley's hymn "I Know My Father Lives" is in both the Primary Children's Songbook and the 1985 hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Retrofit Section 25 album

The album contains nine re-recordings of tracks spanning their entire history, as well as a new song entitled "Über Hymn" and a remix of "Looking From A Hilltop" by Stephen Morris.

Robert McGill Loughridge

The books prepared and published by Loughridge, with the assistance of his interpreter, were a hymn book, a catechism, translation of the Gospel of Matthew, a treatise on baptism, and a dictionary in two parts, Creek and English, and English and Creek.

Sereno Edwards Dwight

Thereafter, he served as pastor of the Park Street Church, Boston, in 1817–1826, where he greatly influenced the young hymn writer and clergyman Ray Palmer, author of "My Faith Looks Up to Thee" among others.

Skip Heitzig

Heitzig wrote the lyrics to the modern hymn (with Brian Nixon), Gloria Exaltus (2008) which was released on the album, Stars Shine Bright.

Soledad Bravo

Considered to be one of the best voices in Latin America, one of her most popular and best known songs is Hasta Siempre, a cover of a Cuban hymn by Carlos Puebla to Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Suona la tromba

"Suona la tromba" (The trumpet sounds) or "Inno popolare" (Hymn of the people) was a secular hymn composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1848 to a text by the Italian poet and patriot Goffredo Mameli.

Thomas Park

He also wrote some cards of ‘Christian Remembrance: a Plain Clue to the Gospel of Peace.’ Park's name is included in John Julian's Hymnology for his hymn "My soul, praise the Lord; speak good of His name".

Wages Day

The main B-side is "Take Me to the Place", which is musically based on the hymn "Abide with Me" and the traditional melody "Eventide".

War song

Most successful on the Union side was ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’, written by Julia Ward Howe in 1862, using the existing tune that had already been used a hymn and soldier’s song, with its rousing chorus of ‘Glory, glory hallelujah’.

Was willst du dich betrüben

Heermann lived in Köben, Silesia, when he wrote the hymn, an area which suffered under the war.

When You Come to the End of the Day

#"All Through The Night" (Traditional Old Welsh hymn, Arranged by Ray Charles)

Yatco

Cesar Alzona (born Caezar Yatco Alzona; 1926–1997), author of the original first Philippine Marines Hymn


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