• Composer Linda Cable Shute is Associate
Music Minister at the Catholic Church of St. Ann, a 15,000-member
parish in suburban Atlanta. She has previously served as organist-choirmaster
in varied denominations throughout the southeast. Her undergraduate
degree from the Queens University of Charlotte was in piano performance,
with a minor in applied art. She pursued post-graduate composition
study with Alice Parker(Westminster Choir College) and Richard Proulx
(St. John's University, MN); conducting with faculty at Westminster
Choir College and Emory University. Ms. Shute began writing music
in 1992. Her first octavo was accepted for publication in 1992 by
Augsburg Fortress. She has over 70 published scores - including
octavos, hymn tunes, psalter and hymn accompaniments - with Augsburg
Fortress, MorningStar,
Selah, Abingdon
and Kjos.
Her works have been performed in Europe as well as in the U.S. She
is a member of the American
Composers Forum and the Association
of Lutheran Church Musicians. She has been a clinician for Augsburg
Fortress music workshops.
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Poet Herb Brokering (aka: The Rev. Dr. Herbert
F. Brokering) is a pastor, poet, pilgrimage guide, speaker and
staff associate for Wheat Ridge Ministries. A graduate of Wartburg
College in Waverly, Iowa, He also studied at Wartburg Seminary
in Dubuque, Iowa, graduated from Trinity Seminary in Columbus,
Ohio and did his graduate work at seven United States and German
universities. Brokering has served with the Lutheran World
Federation refugee service and directed international work camps
in Luebeck, Hamburg and Berlin after World War II. He
has served Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania, New York
and Texas, and is the former Director of Confirmation for the
American Lutheran Church. Brokering also taught at seminaries
and at Navy and Air Force Chaplains’ Schools for 23 years. Brokering
and Dr. Roland Bainton together have led 40 Renaissance-Reformation
festivals and assisted in creating the film “Where Luther
Walked.” Since 1980, he has directed more than 100
pilgrimages to Luther sites and continues to design pilgrimages
and Partner Projects promoting healing, justice and peace in
Palestine, India, China, Poland, Germany and Slovakia. An author
of more than 40 books, Brokering has also written lyrics which
have been set to music by more than 50 composers in hundreds
of songs, including the classic hymns “Earth and All Stars”
and “Thine the Amen.” He currently writes
“Brokering Wheat Ridge,” a resource packet published
by Wheat Ridge Ministries. (information from Wheat
Ridge press release October 13, 2004). |
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