Barnes, Gerald Linton

Composer

b Hampstead, N London, 1935. A church organist, who was briefly at Tetherdown Congregational Ch (now URC), Muswell Hill, 1955–56. FRCO, GRSM, ARCM (London); now living in Finchley, N London. He served on the Editorial Committee (and music sub-committee) compiling Praise for Today (1974), which contains 5 of his tunes, all composed for and set to contemporary texts, and on the Music Advisory Committee for Baptist Praise and Worship (1991). Two of these tunes and one arrangement are also in Rejoice and Sing (1991). No.672.