 Carl
P. Daw Jr.
Executive Director, The Hymn Society
B.A. Rice University
M.A. University of Virginia
M.Div. University of the South
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Email Address: hymnsoc@bu.edu
The Reverend Dr. Carl P. Daw Jr., is an Episcopal priest
and writer who was appointed as the Executive Director of
The
Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1996.
This ecumenical
and international organization has its headquarters at Boston
University School of Theology, where Dr. Daw serves as an
Adjunct Professor of Hymnology in the Master of Sacred Music
program.
In addition to his experience as a parish priest and
university chaplain, Dr. Daw has served as a retreat leader,
speaker,
workshop leader, and guest lecturer at many conferences and
seminaries throughout the United States. He has been successively
Secretary and Chair of the Standing Commission on Church
Music of the Episcopal Church and was a consultant member
of the Text Committee for The Hymnal
1982, to which he contributed
a number of translations, metrical paraphrases, and original
hymns. His hymns have subsequently appeared in a wide range
of denominational and ecumenical hymnals in the United States,
Canada, England, Australia, and Japan as well as in several
smaller collections and approximately forty anthem settings.
A collected edition of his texts, A
Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year, was published in 1990; a collection
of metrical canticles, To Sing God's
Praise, in 1992; and
a third volume, New Psalms and Hymns
and Spiritual Songs,
appeared in 1996 (all from Hope Publishing Co.). He was a
member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for The
Hymnal 1982 Companion and
wrote the essay on "The Spirituality
of Anglican Hymnody" in Volume I and numerous text commentaries
in Volume III. In late 1994 Church Hymnal Corporation published Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical
Dimensions of Preaching, for which he was the editor and a contributor
of two essays. In collaboration with Kevin R. Hackett he
compiled A Hymntune Psalter, which Church Publishing, Inc.
issued in two volumes, 1998-1999. In conjunction with his
lecture tour of Japan in 2002, the United Church of Christ
in Japan published a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese.
He has written a variety of articles related to liturgy and
music and has reviewed related materials for The
St. Luke's Journal of Theology, The
Anglican Theological Review, and
The Hymn.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky,
Dr. Daw grew up in a succession of towns in Tennessee where
his father was a Baptist pastor.
He taught for eight years in the English Department of the
College of William and Mary before entering seminary. Following
his ordination, he served for three years as Assistant Rector
of Christ and Grace Church in Petersburg, Virginia, and for
nine years as Vicar-Chaplain of St. Mark's Chapel at the
University of Connecticut at Storrs. He then spent three
years as a resident Companion of the Community of Celebration
in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, and served in various interim
and supply ministries in that area.
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