Verses Sought for a New Version of `Amazing Grace'

NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  December 12, 1993 ;     283 words ...00-00-0000 [Amazing Grace] LIANE HANSEN, Host: Poet, playwright...to submit a verse for The New Amazing Grace, a project to create a late twentieth...the traditional sacred mode of Amazing Grace, the new verses can be very secular...

Amazing Grace Sunday: how sweet the sound.

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  February 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......favorite lyrics in the popular hymn Amazing Grace are I once was lost, but now am found...Grace and what's so amazing about her?' Amazing Grace will be on the minds of many this weekend...turned clergyman, to write the hymn. Amazing Grace Sunday is a worldwide campaign to ...

Profile: Origin and history of the song "Amazing Grace"

NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  December 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Profile: Origin and history of the song Amazing Grace Host: LIANE HANSEN Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM (Soundbite of Amazing Grace played on pipe organ) LIANE HANSEN, host: The strains of Amazing Grace have been heard in cathedrals around the...

CD REVIEW: 'Amazing Grace' a mediocre misstep for Spiritualized

University Wire;  October 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Daily) (U-WIRE) MEDFORD, Mass. -- "Amazing Grace," the latest release from the band...musical ambition, Pierce's latest album, "Amazing Grace," is a return to his roots. But while Amazing Grace is certainly an album stripped of ostentation...

Hymn-writing saved even a wretch like him; The author of 'Amazing Grace'...

The Christian Science Monitor;  March 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......down his concerts with the old hymn Amazing Grace. And not just him. Over the song's...hymn came to be. The man who wrote Amazing Grace, they'll say, was captain of a slave...an accurate story. In Steve Turner's Amazing Grace, the first comprehensive account of...

The other abolitionists: 'Amazing Grace'.(Screen)(Movie review)

Commonweal;  March 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ...For American moviegoers, Amazing Grace fills an amazing gap in popular...John (author of the famous hymn Amazing Grace ), and covertly encouraged by...safe to predict that as a DVD Amazing Grace will be shown in high-school...

FILM REVIEW: 'Amazing Grace' a schmaltzy biopic

University Wire;  February 26, 2007 ;     492 words ......avoided are frivolity and sap. While "Amazing Grace" never handles the abolition of the...politicians and the people of England. "Amazing Grace" punctuates Wilberforce's 15-year campaign...hero leaves Parliament, the power of "Amazing Grace" dies with the session. Gruffudd pulls...

'Amazing Grace'

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  March 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ......have stumbled across it somewhere. "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch...18th-century Britain - is the subject of "Amazing Grace," an emotionally engaging drama from...his long and determined crusade. In "Amazing Grace," that fight - against slavery, and...

Say a little prayer for you.(history of 'Amazing Grace')(Brief Article)

U.S. News & World Report;  July 8, 2002 ;     443 words ...Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) / That sav'd...century to modern praise services, Amazing Grace would become a staple of Christian...American artists than any other hymn. Amazing Grace was one of 348 chants (spoken, not...

Amazing Grace' amazing story

Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  February 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ......change Their hero Amazing changes When "Amazing Grace" opens at Penn Cinemas, expect to find...worthwhile home from the experience. "Amazing Grace" could be one of them. Fueled by Wilberforce...has been getting requests to show "Amazing Grace" since last fall. How can an ...

Ioan Gruffudd says 'Amazing Grace' shows politics can do good

Daily Breeze;  March 7, 2007 ;     588 words ......have his most outrageous role yet in "Amazing Grace," playing a British politician who...make the world a better place. In "Amazing Grace," Gruffudd plays Member of Parliament...who'd been carted across the world." "Amazing Grace" is a companion piece to such works...

'AMAZING GRACE'.

Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT);  March 3, 2007 ;     379 words ......imagine a much better family flick than Amazing Grace, the wonderful British drama that opened...be enjoyed by audiences of all ages, Amazing Grace is a PG with wide appeal. It's a sign...order to get a more marketable PG-13. Amazing Grace just happens to be a good story that...

`Amazing Grace'.(Movie review)

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  February 22, 2007 ;     537 words ......his long and determined crusade. In Amazing Grace, that fight _ against slavery, and...from a screenplay by Steven Knight, Amazing Grace stars Ioan Gruffudd as Wilberforce...Wilberforce's chief opponents, and Amazing Grace's chief villains are the contemptuous...

Tens of Thousands to Gather February 18 to Sing Amazing Grace.

PR Newswire;  February 12, 2007 ;     367 words ......Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: Amazing Grace Sunday is a worldwide event bringing...freedom and sing the historic song, Amazing Grace. The event was inspired by Bristol Bay Production's newest film, Amazing Grace, which chronicles the lives of...

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith.

The Women's Review of Books;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Books, 1998, 386 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch...people often cry when they hear the song Amazing Grace. Its simple words remind them of the...forgiveness transcended years of bitterness. Amazing Grace is a song about redemption - not ...