I Hear America Singing Choral Festival hosted by the Liberty Community Chorus, June 6, 2026

[00:00:09][applause] Thank you Chris. Thank you audience for being here. Thank you singers for making this dream come alive. You know that first time you allowed someone to drive your car, fully trusting that they were better drivers than you and that they had total control. That is what is so fun about having someone like Dr. Andre Thomas come and direct your choir.

[00:00:40]I loved preparing the music with my choir for someone else to come in and say more things than I could ever think of. That's who Andre Thomas is. Our journey with my journey with him started when I was a a young high school teacher in Carney, Missouri. And I knew then he was going to be something for years to come. And it's been a few years since then, the '9s. And to see what he has done in that time. And then to open him up in front of the choir, you're going to love this.

[00:01:11]The guest musicians we have today are fabulous.

[00:01:16]Um, and if you're interested in joining this chorus, I would love to talk to you about that. Check us out. Come and join.

[00:01:24]And now, help me welcome Dr. Andre Thomas.

[00:01:31][applause] [applause] Praise the Lord. [music] Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. [music] All nations. All nations. Praise [music] the Lord. All nations.

[00:02:14]Praise the [music] Lord.

[00:02:16]Praise the Lord.

[00:02:21][music] Praise the Lord.

[00:02:24]Praise the Lord. [music] [singing] Praise the Lord. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Praise the Lord.

[00:02:54]Praise the Lord for [music] his mercies.

[00:03:01][singing] [music] For his kindness is great.

[00:03:10]us [music] for his kindness is great for us.

[00:03:25][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> is [music] great for us.

[00:04:11]and the truth of the [singing] Lord.

[00:04:14][music] And the truth of the Lord and forever endures forever.

[00:04:25][music] Praise [singing] the Lord.

[00:04:31]Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

[00:04:33][music] Praise the Lord.

[00:04:35]Praise the Lord. [music] Praise the Lord.

[00:04:41]Praise [music] the Lord. [music] All nations.

[00:04:50]Praise the Lord.

[00:04:54]Praise the Lord. [music] All nations. Praise the Lord, all you nations. Praise the Lord. [music and singing] [applause] [applause] >> [music] >> Lord, please hear my pray the for me [music] when I rise [singing] your serarord.

[00:06:23]Lord, please hear my pray.

[00:06:37][music] Keep me safe in your [music] arms.

[00:06:53]is [singing] your serarord [singing] when my Word on earth is done.

[00:07:30]And you come to take me home [music] just to know I [singing] [music] hear you Oh [singing] Lord, please hear my prayer [singing] in [music] the morning when [singing] I rise.

[00:08:28]>> [music] >> It's your [music] [singing] glory.

[00:08:45]Oh dear [singing] Lord, please hear my [singing] prayer.

[00:09:02]>> [music] >> soul [singing] mercy. [music] Mercy [music] [music] >> [music] [applause] [applause] >> because we do not have any program notes for you. Um, I will speak to you several times and I'll try to make it as brief as I can. Um, the first piece you heard was from the great composer Florence Price. She was born and raised in the great state of Arkansas.

[00:10:21]What was unique about Florence was she was the first black woman to ever have her symphony performed by a major symphony orchestra. That was the Chicago Symphony. That was quite unusual in 1933.

[00:10:36]To have a woman period and a black woman, it was unheard of. And that was Florence. And she later influenced us in many, many other pieces. And those of you that keep up with major symphony orchestras will know that right after we got back after co almost every major symphony orchestra did a symphony of Florence Price. So that was Florence Price that we you you heard and then you heard the young composer who died way too young in a piece that is his original piece. It is not a spiritual.

[00:11:05]The words and music were written by him.

[00:11:08]Uh Lord please hear our prayer. Now, let's talk about that unusual thing called spirituals that everybody gets kind of excited about. What are those things called spirituals? 1619, a Dutch man of war landed on the coast of Virginia and brought to this continent for the first time enslaved Africans.

[00:11:34]When they brought when they came, they bought their culture.

[00:11:40]They brought their language which we had to take away but their sense of music and we had things called call and response that they did and they created a genre where we say oh that's black music and I'm going to say to you that's American music.

[00:12:00]Now why is it so American? We had to decide how do you keep enslaved people docsil. The first thing you must do is break up what would become the family unit. And most of you know that uh fathers were sold away, children were sold away. And so that was to help create them being docel and understand they were now property. Now what else could they do?

[00:12:31]Well, they gave them religion.

[00:12:34]Now you think you give religion to people to make them more docel but it's an interesting thing what God says what man uses for evil God uses for good and these itinerant preachers almost all of them came to the south and they preached to these slaves they weren't terribly Right.

[00:13:03]And I'm not saying anything about southerners, especially since my next stop from where I live is Cuba, but but they weren't terribly bright. They brought their southern himnity. Okay?

[00:13:15]And that's how spirituals got a color that happened. And then they started preaching. Now, this is what I mean by not terribly bright.

[00:13:25]Yeah. preached to a group of enslaved people about Moses.

[00:13:32]Okay.

[00:13:34]And somebody sitting back there where those gentlemen are said, "Mhm, we like Moses."

[00:13:43]And so we made up a song. Go down Moses.

[00:13:47]Way down. And that's where the spiritual was born.

[00:13:52]Nobody alive has ever written a spiritual.

[00:13:56]We have no idea. It comes out of the time of enslavement.

[00:14:01]Now, they preached about other people in the Old Testament. Okay? And since I'm close to the place I was born, I know some of you go to church. So, you understand the Old Testament. Who else do you think was involved in the Old Testament that the slave so loved?

[00:14:27]You have read the first part of the Bible, right? So, who else is in there?

[00:14:34]Abraham. Who else?

[00:14:37]>> Oh, yeah. Thank you. Your preacher did a good job. Joshua. And why was Joshua so important to us? Oh, he led the people into the promised land by marching across the walls. And some sisters said, Joshua at the battle of Jericho and that one was born. What? What else?

[00:14:57]You haven't come close to my favorite guy. Who else is in the Old Testament?

[00:15:00]>> Ezekiel.

[00:15:01]>> Ezekiel. Ah, you looked at the program, didn't you?

[00:15:07]Who else?

[00:15:10]>> No. Elijah.

[00:15:11]>> Oh, thank you, Elijah. Oh, we loved Elijah. And some brothers said, "Yeah, I love Elijah." Elijah rock shout. Okay.

[00:15:23]And there were others. Okay. Now, my favorite guy was a little guy known as David.

[00:15:32]Okay. And the reason I love David so much, okay, is that he was a musician and we acknowledged it and we created little David play on your heart. So he was a musician. He also liked to dance, which I love to do at one time. Okay.

[00:15:58]But the Bible said David danced naked before the Lord. I love to dance and of course I grew up in Kansas so I didn't do any naked dancing. I just love to dance. But then David strayed a bit, found Ba Sheeba, sent Uriah out. He was killed, you know. And then God says, "That's a man after my own heart." And why do I love David? because you come to my house, there's a picture of me in front of the tomb of David with a yamaka on because God said he was a man after my own heart. And I thought, if that's true about David, I got a real good chance to get to heaven.

[00:16:38]So there was David. Now, here's another question to you, and I know you can pass this. Who do you think the slaves idolized when they were when they preached to them?

[00:16:52]This is in the New Testament. Who do you think it is?

[00:16:56]Oh boy. The Midwest has changed.

[00:17:01]>> Somebody said it. Say that again.

[00:17:04]>> Jesus.

[00:17:06]That's why we have the New Testament.

[00:17:07]Remember? All right. So, we made up lots of songs about Jesus. But the itinerary preachers would preach to us from a passage of Paul which said, "Slaves be obedient to your masters." And my ancestors said, "hm". So Paul got no songs.

[00:17:29]He got mentioned once and one if you cannot sing like an angel, you cannot preach like Paul. Other than that, Paul got no songs. Okay? So that's the New Testament. And then we had personal expression. If I say to you, swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.

[00:17:46]>> Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. I looked over Jordan and what did >> I >> a band of angels coming after >> me.

[00:17:55]>> Get the personal.

[00:17:57]>> Yeah, there were lots of them including Steel Away. that form becomes important in African-American music because after 1866 as we started to move north and we even stopped by Kansas City, you know, as we headed north and up the east coast, you know, to Turner Station into that great place called Harlem. Another kind of music that came from that personal spiritual was this wonderful thing called gospel music. That was personal. From the secular side, it was the blues. Nobody sings universal praise. They sang My Baby Left Me in Kansas City. Okay.

[00:18:40]So, that's what you're going to hear.

[00:18:43]Now, Frederick Douglas tells us what were some of the songs the slaves sang along the Underground Railroad. And he mentions one set by Victor Johnson, which is a map song. It is not a spiritual. It tells the time when the slaves should get ready. When the when the first quail in and when the sun comes up and the first quail calls, follow the drinking gourd. And what was the gourd? It was the Big Dipper, but reminded them of a gourd that they used to drink out of. You take a squash, the fat end, you hollow it out, let it dry out, and you use it to drink. And when they looked up, they saw the Big Dipper, and it reminded them of that. But more importantly, the North Star was there and so follow the drinking gourd and peg Lake Joe which was a conductor along the underground railway. So I think I covered most of them in some way and I hope you'll get some idea and we'll move on. Whoever that person was, who was said that said Ezekiel over here?

[00:19:45]Somebody said Ezekiel.

[00:19:48]Oh, they're not going to own up to it.

[00:19:52]>> Right where?

[00:19:54]Oh, yes. The next song's for you.

[00:20:20][music and singing] Way up in the middle of the saw in the middle of the air [music] saw the wheel [singing] up in the middle of the earth. Saw the wheel in the middle of the air.

[00:20:50]We'll come back and find my brother and walk on the cross.

[00:21:06]Put my slip and [music] get in the middle of the air. Well, Satan wears our shoelace.

[00:21:23][singing and music] for the church to sing and shout for the church to sing and shout hallelujah [music] [singing] before 6 months all turned out in the middle of the air.

[00:22:07]Jingle in the middle of the air.

[00:22:14]Dingle jingle tree [music] of the day in the middle of the day.

[00:22:32]Middle of the Sing.

[00:22:54][music] Great.

[00:23:02][singing] Pray.

[00:23:11][singing] [applause] [applause] Jesus [singing and music] the kingus [music] where I beun.

[00:24:18]No, no, >> but now my face [music] is almost no [music] Jesus.

[00:24:34][music] The conquering king Jesus rides a [music and singing] hill white horse.

[00:24:53][music] The river of joy meetings cross [music] [music] Jesus [singing] the conquering king Jesus [music] no man can the king of >> [music] >> No man.

[00:25:27]Jesus is the first and the last. Jesus is the Lord our Jesus is the prince. Praise our peace. [music] No man can hinder thee.

[00:25:43][music] [singing] Jesus on Jesus. I am King Jesus. I am no man.

[00:25:56]No man can be [music] [singing] on Jesus.

[00:26:05]Just on Jesus [music and singing] on Jesus.

[00:26:13]Just on Jesus.

[00:26:18]Jesus. [music] My heart.

[00:26:25]My heart. [music] My heart. Jesus. [music] [singing] [music] My God.

[00:26:46]Jesus.

[00:26:49][music and singing] [applause] [applause] Follow the drinking.

[00:27:35]Follow the drinking.

[00:27:40]The old man [music] is awaiting for caring.

[00:27:45][singing] [music] When the sun comes back and the first [music] calls, follow the dream.

[00:28:11]For the old [singing] man waits for you.

[00:28:15][music] Follow the drinking lord.

[00:28:20]Follow the drinking.

[00:28:24]Follow the drinking. For the old man is a car. [music] Follow the drinking boy.

[00:28:40][music] Now the river then mighty good road.

[00:28:46][music] >> And the left foot traveling.

[00:28:55][music] Follow [singing] the drinking.

[00:29:02]Follow [music] the drinking.

[00:29:05]What the heaven is to carry you to freedom.

[00:29:10]Follow the dream. [music] [singing] [music] Follow the drinking go. There's another river on the other side.

[00:29:33]Follow the drinking. [music] Follow the drinking Lord. [music] [singing] Follow the drinking. [music] For he already to freedom.

[00:29:50]Follow the dream.

[00:29:54]Follow [music] [singing] the drinking.

[00:29:58]Follow the drinking. [singing] For the old man is waiting for to carry [music] you to freedom. Follow the dreaming.

[00:30:10]Follow the dream. [music] Follow the [singing] drinking.

[00:30:20][music] >> [applause] [applause] [music] >> I hear America singing. [music] I hear America singing strong.

[00:31:11]I hear America singing. [music] >> I hear America singing today. Oh, children, don't you get weary. Don't get children, don't you get children, don't you get weary. There's a great [music] sing.

[00:31:42][music] There's a great in the promised land.

[00:31:51][music] America singing. America singing.

[00:31:56][music] Sing America. Sing. America. Sing. [music] Sing.

[00:32:07]America. Sing. America. [music] Sing.

[00:32:11]America. Sing. Sing. [singing] We're going to sing.

[00:32:18]>> [music] >> And never [music and singing] we're going [music] to sing and [music] sing and >> [music] >> And [music] bringing [singing] Americ Americans. [music] [music] [singing] [music and singing] [applause] >> [music] >> It's time of still the rain. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Bring users to [music] [singing] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [singing] >> [music] [music] >> It's time of the rain. [music] >> [music] >> to shy, [music] [singing] [music] joy, in [music] joy, joy, Oh, [music] joy beneath the [singing] sun.

[00:35:39]>> [music] >> Oh, passing boys and girls.

[00:35:43]Passing boys and girls.

[00:35:49][music] [music] It's [music] time of the rain.

[00:36:17]inside [music] the su.

[00:36:24][singing and music] [music] Oh [music and singing] my god.

[00:36:40]Spring. [singing and music] [singing] [music] [applause] Now, he didn't pay me any more money to do this, but I'm going to play. Okay.

[00:37:17][applause] >> [music] [music] >> peace, joy in the Holy Ghost, righteousness, peace, and joy in the [music] Holy Ghost. That's the kingdom of God.

[00:38:19]Peace, joy in the [music] Holy Ghost, righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. That's the kingom of God.

[00:38:30]Don't [music] you want to be a part of the king? Don't you want to be a part of the king? [music] Don't you want to be a part of the kingom?

[00:38:42]Come on [music] everybody.

[00:38:45]Oh yes, there [music] [music] come everybody [singing] the earth is [music] the Lord and the [music] whole Oh, we are [music] part of the earth and it is part [music] of us.

[00:39:31][music] A dear, >> a dear, >> a horse, [music] a horse, a praise, he [music] [music] [music] All things are commous, [music] [music] [music] peace, joy in the Holy Ghost, righteousness, peace, and [music] joy.

[00:40:27]Give the Holy Ghost. That's the kingom of God.

[00:40:32]That's [music] the kingom of God.

[00:40:35]That's the kingom of God. [music] [applause] [applause] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat.

[00:42:09]Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat.

[00:42:27]Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:45:57][music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:46:19][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:46:59]Heat. Heat.

[00:47:03][music] [music] Heat.

[00:47:29][music] Heat.

[00:47:36][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:48:00][music] >> [music] [bell] [music] >> Heat up here.

[00:48:22][music] Heat.

[00:48:31][music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat.

[00:48:51][music] [music] Heat.

[00:49:06][music] Heat.

[00:49:17][music] [music] Heat. [applause] >> [applause] >> Now, we've been doing some poetry. Uh, you heard In Time of Silver Rain. Um, you heard I Hear America singing. Um, you're about to hear to sit and dream.

[00:50:00]Um, poetry, believe it or not, became a fascination for this little guy from Kansas.

[00:50:07]Uh, one of the poets just last week I was at Tangle Wood um doing a concert and I mentioned this poet's name and you would have thought I just said President Kennedy had walked in. They just erupted. But this poet was Walt Whitman where you heard I hear America singing of its greatness. I hear America singing strong. I hear America singing of its beauty. I hear America singing today.

[00:50:37]And that concert was sort of um geared around the 250th anniversary of the United States. And no matter what our political, you know, persuasion by might be, this is still the greatest country in the world.

[00:50:55]and we have to find a way to celebrate the birth of our country. And so, uh, they were I hear America singing, you know, and then the other poet that was significant for me growing up because he had experienced a little time in Topeka, his name is Langston Hughes and Harlem had become a center for African-Americans.

[00:51:21]uh some of our greatest poets, Langston Hughes, County Cullen, and yes, there was a female there, Zoranil Hursten. Uh you may not know much of her poetry, but she refused when they offered her huge contracts if she would change her writing and make it in standard English.

[00:51:42]And she says, "I'm writing in the language of my people." And she refused.

[00:51:48]Uh there is a festival that happens every year where over, you know, eight, nine, 10 thousand people come to this little suburb of Orlando, Florida called Eatenville. And it was an all black suburb. Well, those were the great poets, great sculptors were there, uh the great musicians. And some of you look my age, so you've probably heard of Duke Ellington and and uh Count Basy, you know. Uh but Carla was a special place and it was a place for the first time in this country where blacks and whites could be in the same speak easys and clubs.

[00:52:31]And if you go to Harlem now, you can see Langston's brownstone. And when you look up, it's right on the corner. There's a window and you can see the desk where he wrote so much poetry. But he saw his Harlem change and that made him start to write.

[00:52:49]He saw that racism reared its ugly head and no longer could blacks and whites be in the same clubs. blacks were to perform for whites, but they couldn't hear, you know, they couldn't be a part or their families could even hear them play, you know, and so then he saw drugs come into Harlem and he talks about avaress, the greed of money and he wrote about that and he saw his beautiful Harlem change and so he wrote a piece called I dream a world. I dream a world where the no man will be um black or white, you know, will respect each other in dignity. That was I dream a world. Um now he's writing another poem that is to sit and dream about the world as it can be his future.

[00:53:46]And uh I have a granddaughter and I never thought I would have a grandchild and ever since she's been here she has decided that grandpa is her student [laughter] now grandpa do the continents now and this started at three you know and I thought oh my well she'll grow out of it now the planets grandpa now forget don't forget that Pluto's not a planet anymore you And then she has all these puzzles.

[00:54:17]She'll cross her hands and say, "You can do it, Grandpa. I know you can do it."

[00:54:24]You know, so it's her world I think about.

[00:54:30]You know, what world will we we we leave her? When I was young, they used to say, "I'm a baby boomer."

[00:54:38]Yeah. We thought, "Oh, we're going to change the world." Well, we blew it.

[00:54:43]We blew it. But it is in the hands of all these young people coming along and I hope they will see their world and its wonderful possibilities.

[00:54:54]So we will do that and then you'll hear another uh piece uh by Rosephanie Powell and uh then we will end with Brandon Boyd who teaches at the University of Missouri um another former student. Um I'm often asked you know how can you have a lifelong or even after your life influence and I've said to everyone teach school then it will go forever and for me after after 35 years of teaching graduate students there are only two states where there's not a former student head of director of coral activities And I see, you know, I think, oh, I might be around after they kick after I kick the bucket, you know. So, I hope you will enjoy it. We only have four numbers left. They'll go quickly. I'm going to turn around to you on the last number.

[00:55:58]And when I turn around to you on the last number, put your program down. You will you will clap with me. And we're going to practice that ahead of time.

[00:56:08]Okay?

[00:56:10]There four beats. Okay. And you There are four beats and you are going to clap on two and four.

[00:56:21]Got it. Two and four. So here we go.

[00:56:25]One, two, three, four. One.

[00:56:37]I want you to record this. never tell the nation that there's rhythm in Kansas City.

[00:56:45]So when I turn around, now it'll be your time to clap. Okay? Now they have a a little bit more difficult because they have to move and clap.

[00:56:58]And most of the time we go in the same direction.

[00:57:03]There might be a time where you might see a singer go like this.

[00:57:09]But we will eventually get there with you helping us on two and four. So to sit and dream by Stephanie P, a professor at Auburn University. Her husband is the director of coral activities and she's a wonderful composer to send >> [snorts] [music] [music] >> to sit in [music] sit [music] and learn about [music] to sit and to stay [music] and to say [music] to [music] sit and dream to sit and to [music] sit and learn Hana [music] [singing] >> [music] >> God [music] bless [singing] [music] the world.

[00:59:27]>> [singing] >> All the world [music] [singing] [music] you are Dreamers [music] to dream.

[01:00:00][music] I reach out my hand to you. [music] I reach out my hand to you.

[01:00:17]My hand. [music] I reach out [singing] my hand [music] to you.

[01:00:28][music] I reach out my hand.

[01:00:35][music] I reach out my [singing] [music] heart.

[01:00:47]I reach out [music] my hand to you.

[01:00:52]I reach out my hand. [singing] I reach out my hand to you. [music] I reach out my hand. I reach out my [music] hand.

[01:01:13]>> [music] >> and [music] to sit and read.

[01:01:27]to sit [music] in the world. [music] to sit and dream.

[01:01:38][music] To sit and read.

[01:01:46]Sit and learn about [music] the world.

[01:01:55]To sit and learn about [music] the world.

[01:02:05][music] >> [music] [music] [applause] [applause] >> Oh, thank you.

[01:03:09]>> [applause] >> the good old Presbyterians.

[01:03:15]They have uh the state of North Carolina is unbelievable. these beautiful sir these beautiful lakes and each of the denominations have guarded one of the lakes and people come every year to Montre 2500 people per week of the two weeks and uh that's the Presbyterians and of course the Baptist is bigger you know uh and then the other ones are much smaller but I was asked to come back to conduct the choirs at at the um Montre and I'd have the youth choir and they said, "Andre, we want to do something different. We want to have a gospel choir." I said, "Made up of you."

[01:04:04]They said, "Of course." And they said, "Can you do it?" And I said, "Of course." Then they said, "Can you write a piece based on the Psalms?"

[01:04:17]I said, "Yeah, that was much better than the Baptist did to me."

[01:04:24]I got one psalm to pick. With the Baptist, I had New Testament, Old Testament, Nature, Native Americans, you know, all in one three minute piece.

[01:04:37]Only the Baptist would ask for this.

[01:04:41]But the Presbyterian said on the psalm, so let everything that have breath praise the Lord. Now the style is more jazz than it is gospel.

[01:04:57]>> [laughter] >> So let everything that happen.

[01:05:20]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Let everything let everything [music] let [music] the Lord.

[01:05:49]>> [music] >> Praise you.

[01:05:57]Praise [music] him in the fence of his power. [music] Let everything. Let everything. [music] Let everything. Let everything. Let everything.

[01:06:13][music] Praise the Lord.

[01:06:19][music] Praise him for mighty.

[01:06:25][music] Praise him [music] for Christmas.

[01:06:33]Praise him with the sound [music] of the trumpet.

[01:06:41]Praise him with [music] everything.

[01:06:50]Let everything. Let [music] everything praise [music] the Lord.

[01:07:02]Praise him.

[01:07:06]Praise [music] the Lord.

[01:07:10]Praise him. Praise him. Praise the Lord.

[01:07:16][music] Praise him. Praise him. Praise the Lord.

[01:07:19]>> Praise the Lord.

[01:07:20]>> Praise him. Praise him. Praise the Lord.

[01:07:23]>> Praise the Lord.

[01:07:24]>> Praise him.

[01:07:25]>> Praise him.

[01:07:26]>> Praise the Lord.

[01:07:26]>> Praise the Lord. Praise him.

[01:07:28]>> Praise him. Praise the Lord.

[01:07:30]>> Praise the Lord. Let [music] everything [music] praise [singing] the Lord.

[01:07:45][applause] [applause] I promise I won't leave again.

[01:08:29]>> [music] [music] >> Walk with me.

[01:08:45]Walk [music and singing] with me, Lord.

[01:08:52]Walk with me. [music] >> [singing] [music] >> me. [music] Walk with me, [music] Lord.

[01:09:23]Please walk with me.

[01:09:28][music] [music] When I [singing] [music] walk with me >> [music] >> When I [singing] [music] walk [music] with me, with me [music] when my head is [music] my [singing] caring son. [music] Walk with me, [music] Lord.

[01:10:37][music] Please [singing] walk [chanting] with me, Lord. [music] >> [music] >> All this [singing] journey [chanting] Lord.

[01:11:16]>> [music] >> with me.

[01:11:22]>> You are my [singing] shield. You [music] are my sword.

[01:11:34]With me [music] >> until [singing] I make it safe.

[01:11:47]>> [music and singing] >> is with me when my [music] head is down.

[01:12:03][music] Walk with me, [music] Lord.

[01:12:17]Please walk [singing] with me, [music] oh Lord.

[01:12:26]Walk [music] with me. I [singing] am weary.

[01:12:36]with [music] me. I [singing] am with you.

[01:12:41]The Lord [music] [singing] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [applause] [applause] >> Well, this brings us to the conclusion of our program. And you can see from their faces, they're starting to sweat because they have to put down their music now. And they have to just sing to you from their hearts, which they always do.

[01:13:56]But this movement is kind of a different thing for them. Okay. So, they're going to move and sing with their hearts all the way through. I want to take this opportunity to thank Ryan for the invitation to come.

[01:14:11]I love community courses.

[01:14:14]Um I have one had one at home for 35 years, 300 of them.

[01:14:22]And all the altos thought they were indeed my mother.

[01:14:30]And they were ever faithful. 33 seasons.

[01:14:33]I had five singers who had not missed a single rehearsal in 35 seasons.

[01:14:41]I couldn't claim that.

[01:14:45]But they were so devoted as are these people so devoted to being here.

[01:14:54]They they gave me so much joy. I knew that if I looked at them twice and I smiled, they smiled back at me and they've done it. I am so pleased.

[01:15:06]And Brian, you're doing a wonderful job with these people and um I'm just thrilled. Okay. But I am ready to go home.

[01:15:18]So I hope you will enjoy Brandon Boy.

[01:15:20]Come and go to that land. Okay. And you'll you'll hear Nette play all over that piano to keep that rhythm going. So come and go to that land arranged by Brandon Boyd. Okay.

[01:15:55]>> [music] >> Let go to that land. Come and go to that land. Come and go to [music] that land where I come and go to that land. All that joy in [music] the land to that lamb where I'm bound.

[01:16:22]Peace and joy in that land. Peace and joy in that land. Peace and joy [music] in the land where I found.

[01:16:32]Peace and joy in that land. [music] Peace and joy in that lamb. Peace and joy in that lamb.

[01:16:44]Oh, what a beautiful [music] city. Oh, what a beautiful city. Oh, what a beautiful [music] city.

[01:16:58]Praise to the city.

[01:17:01]Hallelujah. [music] [music] What [singing] a beautiful city.

[01:17:12]Oh, what a beautiful city. Oh, [music] what a beautiful city.

[01:17:23]To the sea. [music] Hallelujah.

[01:17:31]And go to that land. Come [music] and go to that land. Come and go to that land where I found.

[01:17:40]Come and go to that land. Come and go to that [music] land where I found you [singing and music] nowhere.

[01:18:00]Just come on [singing] up to bright glory.

[01:18:05]And I'll be singing [singing] up [music] there.

[01:18:11]I'll be singing up there.

[01:18:16]I'll be singing [singing] up [music] there.

[01:18:20]Just come on up to bright glory [singing] and I'll be singing [music] up there.

[01:18:32]Come and go to that land [music] and go to that land where I found that to [music] land to that land where Come and go with me to my house.

[01:19:02]Come and go [music] with me to my house.

[01:19:12]Come and go [music] with me.

[01:19:16]to my Savior's house.

[01:19:20][music] Come and go with me.

[01:19:26]To my Savior's [music] house.

[01:19:31]Come and go with me.

[01:19:35]To my [music] Savior's house.

[01:19:40]Come and go with me.

[01:19:44][music] to my savior.

[01:19:51][music] Heat. Heat.

[01:20:01][music] Heat.

[01:20:17]Heat.

[01:20:20][cheering] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat.

[01:20:38]Heat.

[01:20:41][music] [music] Yeah.

[01:20:50]Heat. [music] [music] [applause] >> [applause] [applause] [applause] [cheering] [applause] [applause]