Nancy M Raabe

Nancy M Raabe
Nmr 22-2b.jpg Nmr 22-2b.jpg Nancy M Raabe, Philadelphia 2022
Born	Nancy Elizabeth Miller Pomona, California
🏳️ Nationality	American
🎓 Alma mater	Pomona College Trinity Lutheran Seminary Wartburg Theological Seminary
💼 Occupation	Lutheran pastor Author Composer
📆 Years active	1990–
Notable work	Carl Schalk: A Life in Song
👩 Spouse(s)	William A Raabe 1989–

Nancy Elizabeth Miller Raabe is an American clergy member, author, and composer. She is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

Raabe was born to Charles and Mary Miller. She is of English and Scots-Irish descent. Her maternal grandfather, W Henry Cooke, was a professor of History at the Claremont Graduate School, and he worked in UNESCO in the 1940s.

Raabe graduated from Pomona College, Phi Beta Kappa in music. She worked as a classical music critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel and Birmingham News. Her articles on music also appeared in The New York Times, Performance Practice Review, Keynote, Playbill, The Diapason, The Columbus Dispatch, and others.

After moving to Ohio, she completed two master's degrees in theology from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio and then doctoral coursework in musicology at Brandeis University, focusing on the works of Gustav Mahler. She completed her preparation for ordination into the ministry at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa.

Raabe's performance specialty was the French horn. She also became proficient with the piano and organ. As a student in Boston, she formed the New Art Quintet.

Lutheran Pastor

Raabe served as a deacon at Luther Memorial Church in Madison, Wisconsin from 2014-2016. From 2016-2018, she was pastor at Atonement Lutheran Church in Beloit, Wisconsin. In January 2018, she was ordained as a Lutheran pastor and became the pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Marshall, Wisconsin. As of 2021, she is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

Composer

Raabe has composed ten volumes of piano arrangements of Christian hymns with Augsburg Fortress, in the series Grace and Peace. Other publications by Raabe include choral and vocal anthems, organ settings of hymns, and liturgical works. Her publishers include Augsburg, Choristers Guild, Concordia, Hope, Northwestern and MorningStar.

Her compositions are included in the hymnal Evangelical Lutheran Worship, and in numerous publications supporting that book. Her pieces are included in other collections of liturgical works and worship resources, including Materials for the Great Vigil of Easter (2010), Music Sourcebook for Life Passages (2018), Music Sourcebook for Lent and the Three Days (2010), the Augsburg Chorale Book (2017), the St Olaf Choirbook for Women (2017), and the St Olaf Choirbook for Men (2015).

Various of Raabe's choral pieces set her original texts, as well as several written by Martin Luther, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christopher Idle, and Jaroslav Vajda. Other original hymn texts include Only Through Faith (2012), and her original hymn tunes include Last of the Great Prophetic Line (2011, text by Timothy Dudley-Smith), Christ Is Our Peace (2019, text by Shirley Elena Murray), and Signs of Endings All Around Us (2007, text by Bishop Dean Nelson).

Every year, Raabe writes and shares an original tune for an ancient Christmas carol, including Carol of the Birds and The Clanging of Joybells.

Raabe's setting of Savior of the Nations, Come was featured at the 2019 Christmas Eve concert of the Duke University Chapel Choir, telecast on CBS. Her original arrangement of the Langston Hughes poem I Dream A World was a finalist for first prize at the 2010 Ithaca College Choral Composition Festival. Raabe's original anthem and setting of A Fair and Glorious Gift (2012) was featured in a hymn festival at Wittenberg University, celebrating the composer Donald Busarow.

Raabe and her husband William Raabe have commissioned about 80 hymn settings, concertatos, anthems, organ suites, and other music for the Christian church since 1990. Composers contributing these commissions include Kevin Hildebrand, Robert Hobby, Tom Mueller, Charles Ore, and David Schack.

Writing career

Her books include three volumes of One-Minute Devotions for the Church Musician and a critical biography of the Lutheran composer Carl Schalk: A Life in Song. Her books are published by Concordia, MorningStar, and Lutheran University Press.

Raabe's devotional writings have been published in Bread for the Day, Prelude Music Planner, Christ in Our Home, and The Word in Season. She has written for the Faith Matters column of The Lansdale (PA) Reporter, and her monthly column Faith and Culture appeared in the Beloit Daily News. Her columns Prairie View and Both Sides Now have been published in In Tempo, a resource of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.

Raabe Prize

Raabe and her husband William Raabe established the Raabe Prize For Excellence In Sacred Composition, which is awarded by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians biennially. The Raabe Prize also supports other activities aiding composers and worship leaders. Recipients of the Raabe Prize include Jake Runestad, David Ashley White, Zebulon Highben, Dan Forrest, David Cherwien, John Ferguson, and Richard Proulx.

Recognitions

Nancy Raabe is President-Elect of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She will become President of the Association in August 2022.

In November 2015, Raabe received the Award of the Concordia Historical Institute celebrating her book Carl Schalk: A Life in Song, for carrying forward the legacy of the Lutheran Church in the US.

Raabe is a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Church Music at Concordia University Chicago.

Raabe is a Chaplain for the members of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM).

Conferences

Raabe has spoken at theology and worship conferences at Valparaiso University, Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Concordia University Chicago, Shenandoah University, and at meetings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Personal life

Raabe met and married William Alan Raabe in Milwaukee. He is an author and retired professor.

Raabe was a member of the Board of Directors of the Space One Eleven Arts Center in Birmingham, and of the Milton (WI) Community Foundation.

External links

• Official website
• ALCM

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