Nancy M. Raabe | |
|---|---|
 Nancy M Raabe, Philadelphia 2022 | |
| Born | Nancy Elizabeth Miller 1954 (age 68–69) |
| Alma mater | Pomona College Trinity Lutheran Seminary Wartburg Theological Seminary |
| Occupation(s) | Lutheran pastor Author Composer |
| Years active | 1990– |
| Notable work | Carl Schalk: A Life in Song |
| Spouse | William A. Raabe (m. 1989) |
Nancy Elizabeth Miller Raabe (born 1954) is an American clergy member, author, and composer. She is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. [1]
Raabe was born in 1954. [2] She graduated from Pomona College, Phi Beta Kappa in music, in 1977. [2] She completed two master's degrees in theology from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, [3] and doctoral coursework in musicology at Brandeis University, [4] [3] [5] focusing on the works of Gustav Mahler. Raabe completed her preparation for ordination into the ministry at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. [6]
Raabe served as a deacon at Luther Memorial Church in Madison, Wisconsin from 2014 to 2016. From 2016 to 2018, she was pastor at Atonement Lutheran Church in Beloit, Wisconsin. In January 2018, she was ordained as a Lutheran pastor and became the pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Marshall, Wisconsin. [4] As of 2021 [update] , she is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. [1] She is a chaplain for the members of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. [7]
Raabe's compositions are included in the St Olaf Choirbook for Women (2017) [8] and the St Olaf Choirbook for Men (2015). [9]
Every year, Raabe writes and shares an original tune for an ancient Christmas carol, including Carol of the Birds [10] and The Clanging of Joybells. [11] [ better source needed ]
Raabe's setting of Savior of the Nations, Come was featured at the 2019 Christmas Eve concert of the Duke University Chapel Choir, telecast on CBS. Her original arrangement of the Langston Hughes poem I Dream A World was a finalist for first prize at the 2010 Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival. [12]
Raabe and her husband have commissioned about 80 hymn settings, concertatos, anthems, organ suites, and other music for the Christian church since 1990. [13] [ as of? ]
They also established the Raabe Prize For Excellence In Sacred Composition, which is awarded by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians biennially. [5] The Raabe Prize also supports other activities aiding composers and worship leaders. [14] [15]
Raabe is the president of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. [16] [17] She is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Church Music at Concordia University Chicago. [18]
Raabe's academic interests include "hymnody, psalms, Gustav Mahler, and a theology of the arts." [12] Her books include three volumes of One-Minute Devotions for the Church Musician [19] and a critical biography of the Lutheran composer Carl F. Schalk. [20] [21] Her books are published by Concordia, MorningStar, and Lutheran University Press. [22]
Raabe's devotional writings have been published in Bread for the Day, Prelude Music Planner, [23] Christ in Our Home, and The Word in Season. She has written for the Faith Matters column of The Lansdale Reporter, [24] and her monthly column Faith and Culture appeared in the Beloit Daily News . [25] Her columns Prairie View and Both Sides Now [26] have been published in In Tempo, a resource of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. [27]
Prior to entering the ministry, Raabe was the classical music critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel and Birmingham News . [3] Her articles on music also appeared in The New York Times , [28] Performance Practice Review, [29] Keynote, Playbill , and The Diapason . [30]
Nancy Raabe is a 2022 Engle Preaching Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary. [31]
Raabe met and married William Alan Raabe in Milwaukee in 1989. [3] He is an author and retired professor. [32]
Raabe was a member of the Board of Directors of the Space One Eleven Arts Center in Birmingham, [33] and of the Milton (WI) Community Foundation. [34]
A Lutheran chorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service. The typical four-part setting of a chorale, in which the sopranos sing the melody along with three lower voices, is known as a chorale harmonization.
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" is one of the best known hymns by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnwriter. Luther wrote the words and composed the hymn tune between 1527 and 1529. It has been translated into English at least seventy times and also into many other languages. The words are mostly original, although the first line paraphrases that of Psalm 46.
Saint Cecilia, also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman virgin martyr and is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness of music and musicians, it being written that, as the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia "sang in her heart to the Lord". Musical compositions are dedicated to her, and her feast, on 22 November, is the occasion of concerts and musical festivals. She is also known as Cecilia of Rome.
Paul Otto Manz, was an American composer for choir and organ. His most famous choral work is the Advent motet "E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come", which has been performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge, though its broadcast by the neighbouring Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, in its Advent Carol Service precipitated its popularity.
John Allen Ferguson is an American organist, teacher, and composer.
Franz Schalk was an Austrian conductor. From 1918 to 1929 he was director of the Vienna State Opera, a post he held jointly with Richard Strauss from 1919 to 1924. He was later involved in the establishment of the Salzburg Festival.
Milwaukee Lutheran High School (MLHS) is a secondary school located in Milwaukee, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The school was originally known as Lutheran High School (LHS). LHS was established in 1903, making Milwaukee Lutheran the oldest Lutheran high school in the United States. In the 1950s, doctrinal differences between the two synods operating the school resulted in each church body forming its own school.
Richard Proulx was an American composer and editor of church music, including anthems, service music, hymn concertatos, organ music and music for handbell choir, formerly based in Chicago. The pronunciation of his name is suggested by the section of his catalog entitled "Noulx [new] from Proulx".
Daniel Ernest Forrest Jr. is an American composer, pianist, educator, and music editor.
Carl Flentge Schalk was a noted Lutheran composer, author, and lecturer. Between 1965 and 2004 he taught church music at Concordia University Chicago. During this time he guided the development of the university's Master of Church Music degree, which has since graduated more than 140 students. Schalk was a member of the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship, which produced the Lutheran Book of Worship in 1978. He was also the editor of the journal Church Music from 1966 to 1980. Additionally, he was a published composer for Choristers Guild, a member of the Music Advisory Committee of Concordia Publishing House and of the board of directors of Lutheran Music Program, the parent organization of the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival.
Regina Fryxell, born Regina Holmén was an American educator and musician. She was most known as a popular and influential composer of Lutheran choir anthems, hymns and liturgical pieces.
Richard Hillert (1923-2010) was a noted Lutheran composer. He was Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Ill. He was best known for his work as a composer and teacher of composition. Among his most frequently performed liturgical works for congregation is Worthy Is Christ, with its antiphon, “This is the Feast of Victory” which was written as an alternate Song of Praise for inclusion in Setting One of the Holy Communion in Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and Lutheran Worship (1982). "This is the Feast" is now widely published in more than 20 recent worship books of many denominations, most recently in Lutheran Service Book (2006) and Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006). Other major liturgical works include a setting of Evening Prayer (1984) and a Eucharistic Festival Liturgy (1983), which was first performed at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. He wrote liturgical pieces and hymns and served as music editor for Worship Supplement (1969) and Lutheran Book of Worship (1978). His compositions and publications include an array of pieces of liturgical music for congregation, choral motets, hymns and hymn anthems, psalm settings and organ works, concertatos, and cantatas, including settings of The Christmas Story According to Saint Luke and The Passion According to Saint John. He edited eleven volumes of the Concordia Hymn Prelude Series.
The Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book was the first official English-language hymnal of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, then known as the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States. It was published in 1912 by the synod's publishing house, Concordia Publishing House, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Theodora Cormontan was a Norwegian American singer, church musician, pianist, music publisher and composer, one of the first Norwegian women to have her classical compositions published and widely performed, and one of the first woman to start a music publishing business in Norway.
Luther Memorial Church is a Lutheran congregation at 1021 University Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin in the United States. A member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), it is known for its worship, music, education, social ministry and preschool programs. The congregation's cathedral-like Neogothic-style building, designed by local architects Claude & Starck and built in 1923, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
Martin Luther was a great enthusiast for music, and this is why it forms a large part of Lutheran services; in particular, Luther admired the composers Josquin des Prez and Ludwig Senfl and wanted singing in the church to move away from the ars perfecta and towards singing as a Gemeinschaft (community). Lutheran hymns are sometimes known as chorales. Lutheran hymnody is well known for its doctrinal, didactic, and musical richness. Most Lutheran churches are active musically with choirs, handbell choirs, children's choirs, and occasionally change ringing groups that ring bells in a bell tower. Johann Sebastian Bach, a devout Lutheran, composed music for the Lutheran church: more than half of his over 1000 compositions are or contain Lutheran hymns.
Chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheran chorale:
Church music during the Reformation developed during the Protestant Reformation in two schools of thought, the regulative and normative principles of worship, based on reformers John Calvin and Martin Luther. They derived their concepts in response to the Catholic church music, which they found distracting and too ornate. Both principles also pursued use of the native tongue, either alongside or in place of liturgical Latin.
Friederike Helene Emma Fronmüller was a German Lutheran church musician and composer, who published as Frieda Fronmüller.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)