{"id":51323,"date":"2022-02-17T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=51323"},"modified":"2022-02-19T12:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T17:14:31","slug":"alum-wins-duke-university-chapel-hymn-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/alum-wins-duke-university-chapel-hymn-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum wins Duke University Chapel hymn competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brad Croushorn &#8217;93<\/strong> wrote the hymn text \u201cOpen Wide the Doors\u201d, which was chosen from among 60 entries from three countries by Duke University Chapel as the winner of the 2021 Hymn Competition.&nbsp; It was featured as the Opening Hymn on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, at Duke Chapel to reflect the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Croushorn is minister of music and liturgy at All Saints\u2019 United Methodist Church in Morrisville, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hymn debut can be seen and heard at the beginning of this clip. The Duke Chapel Choir and Chapel Organist Christopher Jacobson led the congregation in singing it to the English tune RUSTINGTON.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunday Morning Worship Service - 1\/23\/22 - Rev. Dr. Carol Gregg\" width=\"848\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wzu-szyRJzo?start=617&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Zebulon M. Highben, director of Chapel Music at Duke Chapel and associate professor of the practice of church music at Duke Divinity School, coordinated the contest. \u201c\u2018Open Wide the Doors\u2019 will be a marvelous addition to the church\u2019s hymnody,\u201d Highben said. \u201cThe text beautifully and succinctly addresses our contest\u2019s theme of compassion, as it calls us to open the doors of our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs I see it, practicing compassion \u2013 for others and also for ourselves \u2013 is what creates an opening (\u2018doors\u2019 and \u2018windows\u2019) to enter into an authentic connection with each other,\u201d Croushorn said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/corridordistrictnc.org\/duke-university-chapel-selects-open-wide-the-doors-by-brad-croushorn-as-the-winner-of-its-2021-hymn-competition\/\">UMC press release.<\/a> \u201cPracticing compassion illuminates our commonalities and brings us to the gentle understanding that indeed, God is in our midst. To me, it is the framework of living in the way of love. And this idea was running in my mind continually while writing \u2018Open Wide the Doors.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the winner of the competition, Croushorn will receive $1,500 and his hymn will be published by MorningStar Music\/ECS Publishing Group in a collection of new and recent hymns from Duke Chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradCroushorn.net\">composer and vocalist<\/a> based in the Raleigh-Durham area,\u00a0Croushorn\u00a0is an associate editor of School Choral Publications at Alfred Music Publishing. He also participates in the local music scene through the NC Songwriters Co-op and Carolina Contemporary Composers. As a performer, he has sung in the\u00a0Academy of Music\u00a0in Philadelphia and at\u00a0Avery Fisher Hall\u00a0in New York and multiple years at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.svbachfestival.org\/\">Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival<\/a>, hosted at EMU each summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Croushorn &#8217;93 wrote the hymn text \u201cOpen Wide the Doors\u201d, which was chosen from among 60 entries from three countries by Duke University Chapel as the winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/alum-wins-duke-university-chapel-hymn-competition\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Alum wins Duke University Chapel hymn competition<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,7931,17562,5183],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17241],"class_list":["post-51323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-digest","category-music","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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