As We Hear It -- in the waves, in the wind, in the echo of our own voices

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At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amazing Grace ever recorded. He says, "A lot of people don't realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano. Probably the most famous on this slave scale was written by John Newton, who used to be the captain of a slave ship, and many believe he heard this melody that sounds very much like a West African sorrow chant. And it has a haunting, haunting plaintive quality to it that reaches past your arrogance, past your pride, and it speaks to that part of you that's in bondage. And we feel it. We feel it. It's just one of the most amazing melodies in all of human history." 

Uploaded on Sep 15, 2010 to YouTube by bljanise

Circumdederunt meThe sorrows of death surrounded me, the sorrow of hell encompassed me: and in my affliction I called upon the Lord, and heard my voice from His holy Temple(Ps 17:2,3) I will love Thee, O Lord my strength: the Lord is my firmament, my refuge and my deliverer. Glory be...