I felt my legs were praying, a tribute to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and his words after marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma in 1965, will be performed as part of UCLA’s Music and Justice concert and symposium.

The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music presents a series of concerts and dialogue bringing artists and academics together to dive deep into issues of race and social justice in the modern world. The series launches Feb. 26-28, centered around The Gates of Justice, jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s rarely presented large-scale sacred composition.