The comprehensive and almost flawless musical taste that attended the inaugural festivities showed an amazing grace missing ... but grateful for those first, true notes. After that, the soundbites ...

With its simple melody and message of salvation, “Amazing ... word “grace” is mentioned three times in the second verse alone. The lyrics are mostly one syllable and, with few high notes ...

He had to sing “Amazing Grace ... his musical arrangement “isn’t a song with a beginning, middle, and end this time; this version is endless. And so I’ve been understanding it as some kind of formal, ...

"Amazing Grace." Although Smith didn't have a theatrical background, and despite the fact that he can't read a single note of music, he felt called to dramatize Newton's life. "I thought ...

With its simple melody and message of salvation, "Amazing ... word "grace" is mentioned three times in the second verse alone. The lyrics are mostly one syllable and, with few high notes and ...

When asked why the song has proved so enduring, music journalist Steve Turner (author of "Amazing Grace: The Story of ... The hymnal's use of "shape notes" – triangles, ovals, rectangles and ...

If Sunday morning at 11 o’clock is Christian America’s most segregated hour, then “Amazing Grace” might be its most segregated ... the president’s rendition included “the blackest blues note ever,” an ...