Author Dr. James McCray has been a church choir director for over twenty years serviing in both Protestant and Catholic Churches. His music program at the Methodist Church in Ft. Collins, CO, has more than doubled in the time he has been there. His church choir is recognized as one of the finest in the area; they annually perform more than seventy-five anthems/cantatas for the church. He directs two choirs and supervises a staff who direct the children's choirs, the youth choir, and the hadbell choirs. For twenty years he has contributed a monthly article on church music to the international periodical THE DIAPASON. He has published two conducting books, twenty-five major periodical articles and over one-hundred music compositions and editions.