Calling Card
Music
Typical of many eighteenth-century hymns, “Amazing Grace” began as a sermon. It was then turned into a poem that was later attached to melodies borrowed from traditional songs that churchgoers...
Narrator
Setting
“Amazing Grace” has a long history that helps to add color to the words, but it is primarily a spiritual song, so the setting of the hymn is open to interpretation. (In fact, of the six verses...