Composing
Husberg has 190 hymn tunes published in the United States, Canada, Brazil, the U.K, and China. Her hymns are in hymnals and supplements published by a variety of publishers and denominations, including the popular Methodist supplement, The Faith We Sing, which also includes her most popular tune, Jennings-Houston, now published in six different hymnals and supplements, including Lutheran Worship. She has written two liturgical masses, one of which, The Brooklyn Mass, is currently being used at her church. She also has several choral pieces published.
Her own book of 47 tunes to new texts (including 8 of her own) When You Pass Through the Waters, was published by Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc., in 2005. A new collection of 70 tunes was published in 2012 with texts by Lutheran poet and hymn text writer, Gracia Grindal. The texts and tunes cover Lectionary year B, New Testament readings. She has also composed 15 psalm songs for 2 part choir with refrains for the congregation, texts by Richard Leach. Both parts have instrumental descants. This Psalter was published by Concordia Publishing House in 2012.
When Husberg first came to St. John’s Church, it was entirely African-American. Through the years she has played spirituals, jazz, gospel, and a variety of other styles of music, from Johann Sebastian Bach to Andraé Crouch. All this is reflected in the variety of styles she writes in for her hymns, with a special love of early American pentatonic music and gospel music.
She is a member of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and credits them with nurturing her hymn writing efforts. She writes for congregational singing, believing that we do sing with one voice, young and old, people of all walks of life, new singers and experienced singers. Together we sing praise to the One who accepts all our praise, no matter how beautiful it is, or how humble it may be. She is also a member of the American Composers Forum, the Assoc. of Lutheran Church Musicians, and ASCAP, from which she has received yearly Awards since 2001.
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