PostClassical Ensemble (PCE) rings in 2023 with a new stirring program for chorus and orchestra that celebrates the universal expression of the human spirit through music. "Amazing Grace," perhaps the ...
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. You know those songs that you just kind of know ...
Singer-songwriter Steve Young, who founded the Amazing Grace music store in San Anselmo, pioneered the progressive country movement and was best known for writing the Eagles’ hit “Seven Bridges Road,” ...
John Pedersen and his wife, Judy Kaufman, longtime proprietors of Amazing Grace Music in San Anselmo, watched 40 years of memories disappear Thursday morning in a crunch of wood and a cloud of dust.
It was the ultimate challenge: take words written by a former slave ship captain, and avoid one of the best known melodies of all time. Composer Roderick Williams on how he is marking 250 years since ...
Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. There is no shortage of versions of Amazing Grace.