About the Authors 

David and Barbara Leeman are both graduates of Biola University School of Music. Barbara also earned a teacher’s credential from the University of Oregon, and Dave earned a master’s degree in Choral Conducting from California State University in Fullerton. He is now retired after more than forty-three years of serving as minister of music and worship at churches in California, Oregon, Illinois, and Texas. Barbara has taught private piano and music education for early childhood through middle school. She retired after twenty-three years as the music teacher at Providence Christian School of Texas. They continue to serve as non-paid musicians in the church they attend. Dave and Barbara were both raised in Christian homes where hymnody was loved. They remember car trips where the family often sang hymns together. In 2014, they produced a similar hymnal, but designed for students, entitled Hosanna, Loud Hosannas. The Christmas collection, Hosanna in Excelsis, is only one of a future set of similar books designed to preserve the best of hymns along with their stories and devotional messages.