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Scored for: soprano, alto saxophone, piano Text: Dr. Angelique V. Nixon Language: English Duration: 12 min. Premiere: January 20, 2014, Nina Tober, soprano, Gail Levinsky, Saxophone, Commissioned by: Susquehanna University for their MLK 2015 Convocation Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press
Contact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts:
“This Arc Towards Justice” is set to a poem by Dr. Angelique V. Nixon. The work was commissioned in 2015 by Susquehanna University, where Dr. Nixon is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing. Nixon’s poem reflects on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This Arc Towards Justice
by Angelique V. Nixon
In the dusk of this long struggle for equality, we’ve lost our way to the mountaintop
of Dr. King’s dreams of a promise land
justice rooted in peace
liberation of our minds and bodies freedom to be whole
love to be our philosophy of being human, being human and free
for love is being
for love is justice
for love is peace
for love is liberation
“injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
50 years later
we are still fumbling
in the shadow of your dreams
we live in times of endless wars
cycles of poverty and senseless violence
slow devastation of our humanity and this planet
the pursuit of profit over our labored breath
50 years later
we remember
we honor
we give thanks
to those who fought and died
to those who organized
to those whose voices and faces
we may never know
to those in battle
on the front lines and side lines
to the women in the movement
we are still waiting, wanting your stories
to those whose lives were deemed not respectable
enough to be on the front lines
we are still waiting, wanting your stories
we know you
we know you
yet and still…we don’t know your stories
and the many others like you
for love is being
for love is justice
for love is peace
for love is liberation
This Arc Towards Justice
Scored for: soprano, alto saxophone, piano
Text: Dr. Angelique V. Nixon
Language: English
Duration: 12 min.
Premiere: January 20, 2014, Nina Tober, soprano, Gail Levinsky, Saxophone,
Commissioned by: Susquehanna University for their MLK 2015 Convocation
Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press
Contact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts:
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“This Arc Towards Justice” is set to a poem by Dr. Angelique V. Nixon. The work was commissioned in 2015 by Susquehanna University, where Dr. Nixon is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing. Nixon’s poem reflects on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This Arc Towards Justice
by Angelique V. Nixon
In the dusk of this long struggle for equality, we’ve lost our way to the mountaintop
of Dr. King’s dreams of a promise land
justice rooted in peace
liberation of our minds and bodies freedom to be whole
love to be our philosophy of being human, being human and free
for love is being
for love is justice
for love is peace
for love is liberation
“injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
50 years later
we are still fumbling
in the shadow of your dreams
we live in times of endless wars
cycles of poverty and senseless violence
slow devastation of our humanity and this planet
the pursuit of profit over our labored breath
50 years later
we remember
we honor
we give thanks
to those who fought and died
to those who organized
to those whose voices and faces
we may never know
to those in battle
on the front lines and side lines
to the women in the movement
we are still waiting, wanting your stories
to those whose lives were deemed not respectable
enough to be on the front lines
we are still waiting, wanting your stories
we know you
we know you
yet and still…we don’t know your stories
and the many others like you
for love is being
for love is justice
for love is peace
for love is liberation