The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years. Accessibility links Skip to main content ...

‘Amazing Grace’ arranged by Dayton composer performed at Notre-Dame reopening ‘I know that every classical musician on the planet wanted to be a part of this show.

2023 is the 250th anniversary year of "Amazing Grace." It was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as ...

St. Peter and St. Paul Church, in Olney, England, was home to curate John Newton from 1764 to 1780 and is where “Amazing Grace” was first sung on January 1, 1773.

Years later, ‘Amazing Grace’ would become well-known as the anthem of the civil rights movement, despite its author being a former slave trader. Across two centuries, there have been more than 20 ...

Amazing Grace finally obtained its modern form in 1909, when the evangelical composer and publisher Edwin Othello Excell wrote a new arrangement that owed less to the rural folk tradition and ...

Amazing Grace: The remarkable ... Reverend John Newton, writer and composer of Amazing Grace, the curate-in-charge at St Peter & St Paul’s church in Olney, Buckinghamshire.

“Amazing Grace”—250 years old this year—has been sung in churches and at funerals. It is a civil rights anthem, a civil religion anthem, a folk song, and a pop culture icon.

Since then, Walvin, the author of the new book “Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn,” has submerged himself in the hymn, which turns 250 this year and has become a staple of ...

Amazing Grace finally obtained its modern form in 1909, when the evangelical composer and publisher Edwin Othello Excell wrote a new arrangement that owed less to the rural folk tradition and ...