When Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened in 2024 after a five-year restoration, the ceremony featured some of the world’s most celebrated musicians — and a piece arranged by a lifelong Dayton-area resident.

Majority-black orchestra celebrates song first heard on New Year’s Day 1773 when repentant former slave trader declaimed verses in church A declaration of gratitude and humility, the Christian anthem ...

Surefire stories don't write themselves. That's the take-away from Amazing Grace, the epically bad show that opened Thursday at the Nederlander Theatre...If you're going to make a musical about one of ...

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 ...

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.

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. Amazing Grace was the perfect choice. It is easy ...