04 Music in my life - composing for a hymnal
A Brief Introduction to the Composer of #449 of the Taiwanese Hymn-2009 So͘ Hi-sam, born in 1945, Taiwan, some day after Japan announced its unconditional surrender. On that day as the whole family moved away from their hometown in a countryside of Chiayi, avoiding the war, back to the old city church in Kaohsiung, his mother began the contraction while waiting on the platform of Chiayi Railway Station. She was accompanied by relatives and transferred to a relative's house in the city to deliver a baby. He was then moved back to the old city within the month to reunite with the family. The life of the third son of Rev. Tian-ming Su, the lyricist of the poem, was unstable at the outset. Not only the location of his birth, he couldn't even figure out his birthday. At that time, the Republic of China had not yet occupied Taiwan, and the Japanese system had not yet withdrawn, so he registered his birthday as October 10 in the Japanese system without supportive documentation...