Listen to those amazing double-stops and harmonies ... Violinist Niall Murphy has discovered that if you loosen the hairs on your violin bow and play it backwards, you can create a really beautiful ...

With its simple melody and message of salvation, “Amazing Grace” is a global music sensation. As music lingo would describe it, the song is No. 1 with a bullet. Will Elvis’ “Hound Dog ...

BALABAN: Reginald Golding, the music director of the Howard Gospel Choir at Howard University, says it's not surprising, then, that "Amazing Grace" would become a staple of the civil rights movement.

How did that come about? The music that we associate with “Amazing Grace” today is not what people sang for 60 years after Newton wrote it in (December) 1772. We know from the Lomax family ...