Samford University professor of music Paul Richardson was among those recently honored for their accomplishments in the field of church music by the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. The honorees were recognized at the society’s annual conference, held on the Samford campus in Birmingham and hosted by the school’s division of music in July. The weeklong gathering included hymn festivals, practicum sectionals for tune and text writers, plenary speakers and worship services.
Richardson was named a fellow of the society, along with David Music and Paul Powell. He is the author of numerous works, including a history of Baptist hymnody in America, which he co-wrote with Music. He also served on the editorial board for the new Celebrating Grace Hymnal and has contributed to several other hymnals and hymnal companion works, including The Baptist Hymnal (1992) and The New Century Hymnal Companion (1998). He is a graduate of Mars Hill College in North Carolina and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and has done postgraduate work at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, both in New York.
Music is a professor of church music at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Powell is the author of “Wherever He Leads I’ll Go.”
The Richmond, Va.-based society describes itself as “an organization of member pastors, musicians, scholars, poets, composers and other hymn lovers.” (ABP)
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