The 'Amazing Grace' of Wintley Phipps

This music lesson given by Wintley Phipps is at the heart of what he stands for in the eyes of the young lost, those children of prisoners that he nurtures and fills with the amazing grace of hope.

Our President talks a game of hope.

Wintley Phipps is hope itself.

He mentions the name of John Newton, the captain of a slave ship … well … hmmm …

Let Wintley Phipps tell it.

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With divine charm and an amazing grace of his own, Wintley Phipps performs a minor miracle that brings the two most defining symbols of the American Dream: black and white, brings them together in his powerful rendition of Amazing Grace.

When he lifts it into a new and second key?

The divisions are erased, black and white notes are joined in harmony.

The metaphor is simple in the grandest tradition of 2 + 2 equals 4.

No, Mr. President! Despite what Harvard and the likes of Henry Kissinger may have taught you, 2 + 2 does not equal four-and-a-half.

That is a Progressive’s idea of “Progress” and leads all the “Elitists” into thinking that America and Americans must be denied their own natural resources such as oil and coal! Must buy such sources of energy from only two sources: the Sun and the increasingly Communist New World Order.

As we know, the “Global Warming Supposition” is under increasing suspicion these days.

However, there is no limit to just how “stupid” these Progressive Geniuses think we are.

The President promises us the tyranny of Marxist, Godless delusion, yet calls it “The Fundamental Transformation of the United States of America”.

Tragically America and Americans are blind. They don’t see the evils because of their own generous narcissism.

They are not, however, stupid! Certainly not as stupid as the Progressive Elitists would have them be.

“If the mountain was smooth, you couldn’t climb it!”

That from Phipps’ friend, “an ole black lady”.

She’s a poet, of course, and the leaders of the New World Order are “Intellectuals”.

Progressives are also the smoothest Confidence Men, The Slickest Willies, white or black, that the world has ever seen. Remember what the Old Black Lady reminds us: You cannot climb a “smooth” mountain! Those at the top of The Progressive, New World Order, keep the mountain smooth so you will stay where you are put: beneath them.

As Phipps plays the first few notes of Amazing Grace, the voices of the black and white audience fill the hall in the same way tears begin to fill my eyes.

“When I get to heaven … I want to meet that slave called ‘Unknown’!!”

That slave was also the Man On The Cross whose mother and disciples wailed with the same agonizing depths that Phipps shares with us as an introduction to the music and lyrics of Amazing Grace!!!!!!!!

What did Christ promise us?

“Unless you become like little children, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

Such heaven was there that night in what looks like an old haunt of mine: Carnegie Hall.

Bliss is brought into the lives of frequently troubled and beleaguered adults!

The simple truth is the only thing that can carry us up that old black lady’s “Rocky Mountain” is the ecstasy of simplicity.

That ecstasy and agony can be heard in the first chorus of Wintley Phipps’ rendition of Amazing Grace. In it he is the slave in the bowels of a ship headed for Southern Plantations in America. This Rocky Mountain of Suffering that must be climbed leads, of course, to a Heavenly City on a Hill called the United States of America, Carnegie Hall and the Ecstasies which Christ promised us.

Some day I hope my string quartets and symphonies will again be played in that legendary temple of the greatest music in the world. God willing I will have an old age long enough to compose what I dream of and hear at least some of them performed in Manhattan again.

My encore piece for violin was performed there by the gifted Soviet Émigré, Nina Beilina. It is based on the ancient melody of “I Wonder As I Wander.”

I wonder as I wander

Out under the sky

How Jesus the Savior

Did come for to die!

If I’m not mistaken, my other encore piece for piano and violin, Nina Bluesina, again composed for Nina, was performed at Carnegie Hall as well.

There is an exact duplication going on between Wintley Phipps’ concert and Nina Beilina’s.

How so?

Nina Beilina and her son were becoming virtual slaves under the Soviet Union. They escaped, first to Italy and then to America. I met her eventually through my composition for The Soviet Émigré Orchestra, my Symphony For Strings.

Now, however, both Nina Beiline and her son, face the specter of an American Establishment that is selling us the idea that freedom must compromise with the demands of necessity and the inevitability of a Progressive New World Order where an “ole black lady” doesn’t know as much about life as her Harvard-graduating, black President.

The crags and rocks up that American Mountain we climb are no longer white racists. They are Rainbow Marxists and their Jihadist allies.

American slavery has been transformed into the New World Order’s “offer you cannot refuse”: Progressive submission to Red Islamic demands, Communist ideologues who enjoy the terror which 9/11 threw into the soul of America.

Is the answer American, right-wing ideologues of righteous indignation?

No.

The answer is that “ole black lady” who climbs the mountain singing “Amazing Grace”.