Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Bay as the centerpiece of the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. The carillon was first played from its Singing Tower home on Christmas Eve, 1940, and was formally dedicated in 1943. The bells have been rung to mark a number of important events, including D-Day and the centenary of the San Francisco cable car system. Photographer Ansel Adams produced a series of photographs of the uncompleted cathedral in 1935. "Grace Cathedral Park" is the first song on Red House Painters' first self-titled album. "Grace Cathedral Hill" is Track 7 on The Decemberists' "Castaways and Cutouts" album. It recounts a New
Grace Is Gone marks the first time Clint Eastwood composed the score for a film which he did not write, direct or star in. Stanley Phillips is a middle-aged Army veteran caring for his two daughters, 12-year-old Heidi and 8-year-old Dawn, while his wife, Grace, serves in Iraq. One afternoon, two Army officers visit his home and inform him that Grace has been killed in combat. In shock, Stanley dreads having to tell his daughters of their mother's death. When they arrive home from school, he takes them out to dinner and plans to tell them afterward. Unable to, he instead decides to