In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries. Go to person page >
Arranger: Lyndell Leatherman
Lyndell Leatherman was born into a Nazarene parsonage in southeast Kansas in 1953. He began piano lessons at age eight, studying with his mother Wilma, a piano teacher and church musician (and still today—as an active octogenarian—organist in her local church in Eureka, Illinois). By the age of thirteen he was playing regularly in the Green Rock (now Colona), Illinos church where his father was then pastoring.
While attending Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, Illinois, he was privileged to study piano with Stephen Nielson and organ with Ovid Young, two keyboard artists who comprise the renowned duo known worldwide as Nielson and Young. After earning a degree in church and choral music at ONU, he continued his education with grad… Go to person page >
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