Written for the "New York Saxophone Quartet" for a memorial concert post 9. 11. 2001. Simple melodic rendering of traditional hymn for saxophone quartet, featuring the alto saxophone. Instrumentation : 4 saxophones (SATBar)

Holiday Celebration Series

To the friend who solicits him in this respect, the author tells the story of his life through a series of 14 letters. At the onset just a simple sailor on a commercial vessel, thereafter a slave in Africa and for a while even a slave merchant, miscreant, hothead, he abruptly converted himself when he became aware he had always been accompanied and protected by divine grace. Having thus embraced an ecclesiastical career, he then expressed his inner experience through many poems and hymns, one of which is still today well reknowned: « Amazing grace... »

Memoirs

Second Lieutenant Sam, USMC, traces his thirteen month tour in dreams and flashbacks trying to define the young man who left on a January Viet Nam bound air plane, and in so doing realizes that that young man never returned. The lights that once danced in his eyes are out. Home, the memory of which he clung to throughout his tour has turned out to be a frightening place full of booby traps that if he is not careful will bring his fragile world crashing down around him. Each operation, each patrol, each step each day ticked off the calendar bring him closer to home and farther away from himself

SitRep: Viet Nam

John Newton désigne plusieurs personnes :

John Newton (1622-1678), mathématicien et astronome britannique ;
John Newton (1725-1807), marin, homme d'Église et militant anti-esclavagiste britannique ;
John Newton (1822-1895), général américain durant la guerre de Sécession ;
John Newton (1965-), acteur américain.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton

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