WEBVTT 00:00.033 --> 00:01.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% [CHOIR SINGING] 00:01.066 --> 00:14.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪ 00:14.866 --> 00:17.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE SO 00:17.800 --> 00:19.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EASY TO ORGANIZE, I JUST LOVE 00:19.000 --> 00:19.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT. 00:19.466 --> 00:21.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT'S LIKE THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY 00:21.433 --> 00:22.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YEAR. 00:22.433 --> 00:23.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> WE ALL LOOK FORWARD TO EVERY 00:23.600 --> 00:25.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YEAR GETTING TOGETHER, SINGING 00:25.600 --> 00:27.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND JUST MAKING GOOD MUSIC. 00:27.466 --> 00:28.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THIS IS ONE WAY OF BRINGING 00:28.566 --> 00:30.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER. 00:30.133 --> 00:31.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> I GET WELCOMED WITH OPEN 00:31.200 --> 00:31.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ARMS. 00:31.866 --> 00:33.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND EVEN THOUGH I'M OF THE 00:33.300 --> 00:35.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% JEWISH FAITH, I FEEL THAT I HAVE 00:35.233 --> 00:37.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% A HOME WITH THIS CHOIR. 00:37.300 --> 00:39.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> HEY, ONE TWO. 00:39.933 --> 00:40.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: TODAY WE'RE GOING TO 00:40.900 --> 00:42.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HEAR FROM A CHOIR THAT HAS BEEN 00:42.800 --> 00:44.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GATHERING EVERY YEAR FOR OVER 00:44.733 --> 00:46.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THREE DECADES, MADE UP OF AREA 00:46.733 --> 00:48.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% RESIDENTS AND LOCAL HOUSES OF 00:48.366 --> 00:49.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WORSHIP. 00:49.100 --> 00:51.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THEY JOIN TOGETHER IN SONG TO 00:51.133 --> 00:52.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CELEBRATE THE IDEALS OF DR. 00:52.833 --> 00:54.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% KING. 00:54.066 --> 00:55.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% JOIN US AS WE VISIT THE MARTIN 00:55.500 --> 00:57.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CHOIR. 00:57.566 --> 00:58.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% COME ON! 00:58.866 --> 01:04.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪ 01:04.633 --> 01:05.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: SO, CINDY, WHAT 01:05.733 --> 01:06.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INSPIRED YOU ALL TO START THE 01:06.766 --> 01:07.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHOIR? 01:07.966 --> 01:09.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> ORIGINALLY, WE DIDN'T HAVE A 01:09.333 --> 01:10.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHOIR. 01:10.266 --> 01:12.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE COMMUNITY CELEBRATION 01:12.600 --> 01:14.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% STARTED BACK IN '84. 01:14.900 --> 01:17.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT WAS A AN EFFORT ON THE 01:17.266 --> 01:19.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PART OF THE NAACP TO COMMEMORATE 01:19.333 --> 01:21.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE MLK HOLIDAY AND GET THAT 01:21.500 --> 01:23.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% STARTED HERE IN THE COMMUNITY. 01:23.333 --> 01:25.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SO IT WAS JUST A SERVICE AND TO 01:25.300 --> 01:27.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HONOR A COMMUNITY MEMBER FOR 01:27.600 --> 01:28.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THEIR DEDICATION TO THE IDEALS 01:28.833 --> 01:30.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND VALUES OF DR. KING. 01:30.266 --> 01:31.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND SO IT DIDN'T START WITH A 01:31.166 --> 01:32.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHOIR THE CHOIR DIDN'T COME IN 01:32.333 --> 01:33.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% UNTIL ABOUT THREE YEARS LATER. 01:33.966 --> 01:35.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: AND IS -- JONATHAN, IS 01:35.100 --> 01:35.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THAT BECAUSE OF YOU? 01:35.833 --> 01:36.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THAT'S THE TIME WHEN I CAME 01:36.700 --> 01:37.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IN. 01:37.600 --> 01:38.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE FIRST YEAR OF THE CHOIR 01:38.600 --> 01:40.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THOMAS BRYANT WAS CONDUCTING THE 01:40.200 --> 01:42.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHOIR, HE'S A MUSICIAN IN THIS 01:42.100 --> 01:45.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AREA AND THEN THE SECOND YEAR HE 01:45.033 --> 01:47.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INVITED ME TO COME PARTICIPATE 01:47.966 --> 01:49.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND JUST PLAY ONE SONG AND KIND 01:49.766 --> 01:50.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OF OVER THE YEARS MORPHED INTO A 01:50.633 --> 01:52.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% LOT MORE THAN ONE SONG. 01:52.133 --> 01:54.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% [LAUGHTER] 01:54.100 --> 01:55.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: SO PAINT A PICTURE FOR 01:55.533 --> 01:56.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% US WHO IS IN THE CHOIR. 01:56.433 --> 01:58.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WHO CAN JOIN THE CHOIR? 01:58.600 --> 01:59.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THE CHOIR, I THINK WHEN IT 01:59.800 --> 02:01.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% FIRST STARTED OUT WAS A COUPLE 02:01.100 --> 02:02.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OF LOCAL CHURCH CHOIRS CAME 02:02.266 --> 02:03.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TOGETHER, IT WAS MOUNT ZION, 02:03.500 --> 02:05.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% FIRST BAPTIST. 02:05.333 --> 02:07.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ZION AND EBENEZER. 02:07.233 --> 02:08.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT WAS BASICALLY LOCAL 02:08.300 --> 02:09.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHURCHES IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA 02:09.266 --> 02:10.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CAME TOGETHER. 02:10.100 --> 02:10.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT JUST KEEPS GROWING. 02:10.966 --> 02:13.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT JUST KEEPS GROWING. 02:13.100 --> 02:14.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% STUDENTS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOLS, 02:14.400 --> 02:16.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY 02:16.066 --> 02:18.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% STARTED JOINING US AND IT REALLY 02:18.666 --> 02:20.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HAS BECOME THE REAL COMMUNITY. 02:20.200 --> 02:21.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪ 02:21.000 --> 02:24.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THROUGH THE NIGHT ♪ 02:24.333 --> 02:30.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪ TAKE MY HAND PRECIOUS LORD ♪ 02:30.066 --> 02:34.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪ LEAD ME ON ♪ 02:34.600 --> 02:41.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪ AMEN. 02:41.966 --> 02:43.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> IT'S NOT JUST GOSPEL, IT'S 02:43.533 --> 02:45.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% NOT JUST AN ANTHEM, BUT IT'S THE 02:45.833 --> 02:46.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MIXTURE. 02:46.700 --> 02:49.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WE'VE EVEN DONE SOME JEWISH 02:49.100 --> 02:50.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% NUMBERS. 02:50.266 --> 02:51.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: SO YOU REALLY, REALLY 02:51.833 --> 02:54.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE 02:54.766 --> 02:57.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO EVERYBODY AND MAYBE SOMETHING 02:57.766 --> 02:59.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THAT THEY'RE NOT NORMALLY DOING 02:59.033 --> 03:03.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IN THEIR CHOIR. 03:03.000 --> 03:04.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> YOU KNOW, WE'VE TRIED TO GET 03:04.566 --> 03:06.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MUSIC THAT KIND OF GOES ACROSS 03:06.300 --> 03:06.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE BOARD. 03:06.866 --> 03:07.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BUT IT DOES GIVE PEOPLE 03:07.666 --> 03:09.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OPPORTUNITY TO SING THINGS THAT 03:09.100 --> 03:10.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THEY DON'T NORMALLY SING IN 03:10.533 --> 03:11.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THEIR NORMAL CHURCH CHOIR 03:11.400 --> 03:12.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SERVICES AS WELL. 03:12.266 --> 03:13.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND TO EXPERIENCE PEOPLE FROM 03:13.766 --> 03:15.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OTHER CULTURES RIGHT HERE IN OUR 03:15.133 --> 03:16.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% COMMUNITY. 03:16.000 --> 03:16.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND SO -- 03:16.966 --> 03:17.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: AND WHY IS THAT SO 03:17.666 --> 03:18.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IMPORTANT? 03:18.500 --> 03:20.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> WELL, SEE, DR. KING -- IT 03:20.000 --> 03:21.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WASN'T JUST ABOUT AFRICAN 03:21.033 --> 03:21.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AMERICANS. 03:21.866 --> 03:23.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT WAS ABOUT EVERYBODY. 03:23.066 --> 03:24.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT WAS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. 03:24.666 --> 03:25.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK 03:25.866 --> 03:27.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AT THE WHOLE WORLD, THEN IT HAS 03:27.333 --> 03:30.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO BE ECLECTIC, IT HAS TO BE 03:30.133 --> 03:32.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THAT DIVERSITY, AND BLACK, WHITE 03:32.700 --> 03:35.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% JEWISH, PROTESTANTS -- YOU NAME 03:35.566 --> 03:37.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT, AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE 03:37.066 --> 03:38.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THAT WE HAVE DIVERSITY IN ALL 03:38.533 --> 03:39.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THAT WE DO IN OUR SINGING, AS 03:39.566 --> 03:41.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WELL AS IN OUR SPEAKERS. 03:41.733 --> 03:44.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> IN JUNE OF 1964, 16 RABBIS 03:44.366 --> 03:45.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WERE ARRESTED FOR THEIR 03:45.833 --> 03:47.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PARTICIPATION IN CIVIL RIGHTS 03:47.833 --> 03:49.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ACTIVITIES IN ST. AUGUSTINE, 03:49.366 --> 03:50.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% FLORIDA. 03:50.933 --> 03:52.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> DR. KING MARCHED TO 03:52.633 --> 03:56.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BIRMINGHAM, HE MARCHED IN SELMA, 03:56.633 --> 03:58.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IN ALBANY, HE MARCHED IN 03:58.566 --> 04:01.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WASHINGTON DC, HE MARCHED AGAIN, 04:01.666 --> 04:03.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN 04:03.700 --> 04:05.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND AGAIN. 04:05.266 --> 04:06.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT COULD BE SAID 04:06.466 --> 04:08.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SYMBOLICALLY THAT HE DIED 04:08.166 --> 04:09.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MARCHING. 04:09.900 --> 04:11.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: TALK A LITTLE BIT 04:11.733 --> 04:13.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ABOUT THE SPEAKER. 04:13.866 --> 04:14.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SO EVERY EVENT, THERE IS A 04:14.633 --> 04:16.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% NATIONAL -- SOMETIMES LOCAL, BUT 04:16.966 --> 04:17.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THERE'S A SPECIAL SPEAKER. 04:17.833 --> 04:18.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TALK ABOUT -- 04:18.766 --> 04:19.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> YEAH, WYATT TEE WALKER IS 04:19.433 --> 04:20.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PROBABLY ONE OF MY FAVORITES 04:20.266 --> 04:21.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BECAUSE 04:21.133 --> 04:22.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: WELL, FOR THOSE WHO 04:22.000 --> 04:23.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% DON'T KNOW WHO IS -- 04:23.000 --> 04:24.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> WYATT TEE WALKER WAS A MEMBER 04:24.500 --> 04:25.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA WORK 04:25.966 --> 04:27.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WITH DR. KING AND PASTORED A 04:27.266 --> 04:28.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHURCH IN NEW YORK CITY. 04:28.833 --> 04:30.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BUT HE'S ALSO A MUSICIAN, AND 04:30.433 --> 04:31.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HAS WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS ON 04:31.600 --> 04:32.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SPIRITUALS AND MUSIC OF THE 04:32.700 --> 04:33.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BLACK CHURCH. 04:33.500 --> 04:35.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND SO IT WAS REALLY HAVING THE 04:35.000 --> 04:37.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SOURCE ALIVE HERE WITH US. 04:37.166 --> 04:38.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SO WHEN WE DID A SPIRITUAL THAT 04:38.933 --> 04:40.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YEAR, HE COULD ACTUALLY GIVE 04:40.333 --> 04:42.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SOME INPUT TO THE CHOIR. 04:42.100 --> 04:43.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: OH, WOW, INCREDIBLE. 04:43.433 --> 04:44.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> IT REALLY WAS. 04:44.166 --> 04:45.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: AND ALSO THEN YOU AND 04:45.133 --> 04:46.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YOU HAVE AN AWARD RECIPIENT 04:46.666 --> 04:47.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EVERY YEAR. 04:47.733 --> 04:49.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THIS PERSON? 04:49.400 --> 04:50.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? 04:50.566 --> 04:51.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ARE THEY STUDENTS? 04:51.533 --> 04:53.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ARE THEY COMMUNITY MEMBERS? 04:53.033 --> 04:54.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THEY'RE FROM EVERYWHERE. 04:54.300 --> 04:55.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WE ACCEPT NOMINATIONS FROM THE 04:55.500 --> 04:57.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% COMMUNITY AT LARGE, AND THEN WE 04:57.133 --> 04:58.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% VOTE ON THEM AS A COMMITTEE TO 04:58.500 --> 05:00.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MAKE THE SELECTION. 05:00.100 --> 05:01.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THEY ARE LOCALS. 05:01.500 --> 05:02.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WE CAN 05:02.466 --> 05:04.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TOUCH AND OUR CHILDREN CAN TOUCH 05:04.033 --> 05:05.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND ACTUALLY HAVE SOME INSIGHT 05:05.333 --> 05:06.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INTO WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT YOU 05:06.633 --> 05:07.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% KNOW, THE FACT THAT YOU GET TO 05:07.700 --> 05:08.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% DO TODAY BECAUSE WHAT THESE 05:08.866 --> 05:12.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PEOPLE DID YESTERDAY. 05:12.966 --> 05:16.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> MRS. THERESA JACKSON WALKER 05:16.266 --> 05:21.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PRICE. 05:21.500 --> 05:22.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> OUR OFFERING TODAY IS GOING 05:22.700 --> 05:24.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO THE SISTERS KEEPER 05:24.000 --> 05:25.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% COLLECTIVE. 05:25.666 --> 05:41.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪ 05:41.266 --> 05:42.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: HOW DOES THE CHOIR 05:42.033 --> 05:42.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PREPARE? 05:42.700 --> 05:44.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% DO THEY REHEARSE? 05:44.500 --> 05:46.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> YES, WE DEFINITELY HAD A LOT 05:46.233 --> 05:47.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OF REHEARSALS. 05:47.100 --> 05:48.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WE START USUALLY THE FIRST WEEK 05:48.133 --> 05:49.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IN JANUARY, WE ALTERNATE 05:49.766 --> 05:51.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS, I 05:51.266 --> 05:52.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% USUALLY GET WITH THE MUSICIANS 05:52.933 --> 05:54.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND STAFF THAT WORK ON IDEAS FOR 05:54.866 --> 05:56.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SONGS THAT COME UP WITH A COUPLE 05:56.966 --> 05:58.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PEOPLE GIVE ME SOME IDEAS AS WE 05:58.700 --> 06:00.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PICK THINGS THAT WE THINK ARE 06:00.266 --> 06:01.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GONNA BE REALLY GOOD CHALLENGE, 06:01.566 --> 06:02.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SO THAT IT'S OPEN TO EVERYBODY 06:02.533 --> 06:04.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO COME IN AND JOIN US AND HAVE 06:04.433 --> 06:05.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% FUN. 06:05.800 --> 06:07.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND WE'LL DO ABOUT FIVE 06:07.033 --> 06:08.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% REHEARSALS TO GET READY FOR THE 06:08.666 --> 06:10.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% KING CELEBRATION. 06:10.433 --> 06:11.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: BUT -- AND ALSO, SOME 06:11.933 --> 06:13.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OF THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE 06:13.700 --> 06:14.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MUSICIANS IN THE COMMUNITY, SOME 06:14.900 --> 06:16.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BELONG TO CHOIRS, BUT SOME ARE 06:16.933 --> 06:18.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% JUST PEOPLE WHO REALLY WANT TO 06:18.133 --> 06:19.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SING. 06:19.633 --> 06:23.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SINGER TO 06:23.000 --> 06:23.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PARTICIPATE? 06:23.900 --> 06:28.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> NO, AT NOT AT ALL. 06:28.200 --> 06:28.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THEN THERE'S A GROUP OF 06:28.933 --> 06:30.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MUSICIANS WHO WORK TO PUT THE 06:30.066 --> 06:32.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BAND PART TOGETHER. 06:32.533 --> 06:33.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND SO THAT ALL COMES TOGETHER. 06:33.466 --> 06:35.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND WE PUT IT ALL TOGETHER AT 06:35.300 --> 06:37.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE END OF THE FOURTH REHEARSAL. 06:37.400 --> 06:39.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT'S REALLY JUST AN EXCITING 06:39.100 --> 06:40.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TIME. 06:40.266 --> 06:41.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: IT'S TRULY A COMMUNITY 06:41.466 --> 06:41.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EFFORT. 06:41.966 --> 06:43.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT REALLY IS REALLY A COMMUNITY 06:43.533 --> 06:44.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EFFORT. 06:44.366 --> 06:47.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER 06:47.400 --> 06:48.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THREE DECADES. 06:48.100 --> 06:50.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE 06:50.200 --> 06:51.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CROWD AND THE COMMUNITY AND THE 06:51.566 --> 06:52.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INVOLVEMENT AND HOW HAS IT GROWN 06:52.866 --> 06:54.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OVER THE YEARS? 06:54.566 --> 06:56.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> OH, THE FIRST CELEBRATION WAS 06:56.066 --> 06:57.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AT TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 06:57.833 --> 07:00.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THERE WERE PROBABLY 70 07:00.233 --> 07:01.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PEOPLE THERE. 07:01.566 --> 07:02.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SO NEXT YEAR, WE'RE AT TRINITY 07:02.600 --> 07:04.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AGAIN, AND YOU KNOW, GREW A 07:04.000 --> 07:05.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% LITTLE BIT. 07:05.100 --> 07:07.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THEN SO FROM THAT, TO THIS, 07:07.733 --> 07:09.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WHERE WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF 07:09.066 --> 07:10.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SINGERS AND, AND HUNDREDS AND 07:10.633 --> 07:11.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HUNDREDS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS 07:11.900 --> 07:13.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% COME TOGETHER TO HAVE THIS 07:13.633 --> 07:15.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% COMMUNITY CELEBRATION. 07:15.533 --> 07:16.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND I DON'T THINK WE GET THAT 07:16.966 --> 07:18.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% VERY OFTEN HERE. 07:18.333 --> 07:20.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IF YOU LOOK OUT, IT'S JUST 07:20.433 --> 07:23.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AN AMAZING RAINBOW OF PEOPLE. 07:23.266 --> 07:36.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪ 07:36.966 --> 07:39.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: JONATHAN, YOU WANTED 07:39.500 --> 07:42.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO HAVE A CONCERT IN 2018 IN THE 07:42.400 --> 07:46.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SUMMER TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY 07:46.233 --> 07:48.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OF THE EVENTS OF AUGUST 11 AND 07:48.200 --> 07:50.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% 12TH. 07:50.566 --> 07:52.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% NORMALLY THE CHOIR PLAYS ONCE A 07:52.233 --> 07:54.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YEAR AND SINGS IN JANUARY. 07:54.800 --> 07:57.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THE 2018 CELEBRATION WAS JUST 07:57.733 --> 07:59.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AN EXCITING TIME FOR US AS A 07:59.433 --> 08:01.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHOIR, THE MUSIC WAS GREAT. 08:01.333 --> 08:03.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WE SANG A PIECE CALLED HARAMBEE 08:03.133 --> 08:04.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THE TEXT BEING HARAMBEE WE 08:04.833 --> 08:06.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ALL PULLED TOGETHER AND THE TEXT 08:06.600 --> 08:08.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WAS LIKE LET US ALL PULL 08:08.233 --> 08:10.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TOGETHER TO PROMOTE LOVE AND 08:10.066 --> 08:10.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GOOD DEEDS. 08:10.800 --> 08:12.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT REALLY RESONATED WITH 08:12.333 --> 08:13.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EVERYONE IN THE ROOM WHEN WE 08:13.966 --> 08:15.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WERE SINGING IN THE CHOIR, THE 08:15.333 --> 08:17.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MUSICIANS, EVERYBODY, THE 08:17.033 --> 08:18.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AUDIENCE, I THINK REALLY CAUGHT 08:18.066 --> 08:19.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT. 08:19.300 --> 08:20.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND WE'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO 08:20.700 --> 08:21.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SOMETHING ELSE DURING THE COURSE 08:21.733 --> 08:22.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OF THE YEAR. 08:22.600 --> 08:23.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND SO TWO PEOPLE CAME TO ME AND 08:23.600 --> 08:24.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SAID, CAN WE -- YOU KNOW, CAN WE 08:24.966 --> 08:26.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PICK UP OFF THE HARAMBEE IDEA 08:26.900 --> 08:27.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND, AND I THOUGHT, WOW, THIS 08:27.966 --> 08:29.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO 08:29.400 --> 08:31.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% KEEP THIS WHOLE HARAMBEE PIECE 08:31.133 --> 08:31.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GOING. 08:31.933 --> 08:33.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE GOAL WAS TO TRY TO GET MAYBE 08:33.300 --> 08:35.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% 100 SINGERS TO COME TOGETHER, 08:35.100 --> 08:36.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND TO SING OUT AT THE PARK AND 08:36.000 --> 08:37.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WE'RE GOING TO DO A COUPLE 08:37.233 --> 08:38.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SONGS. 08:38.200 --> 08:40.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT 08:40.300 --> 08:41.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% JUST BLOSSOMED, IT JUST KEPT 08:41.900 --> 08:44.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GROWING AND GROWING AND GROWING. 08:44.300 --> 08:46.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND OKAY, SO WE SAID 300. 08:46.233 --> 08:48.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THEN WE HAVE 450. 08:48.133 --> 08:49.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND WE JUST KEPT GROWING I THINK 08:49.633 --> 08:50.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WE ENDED UP CLOSE TO ABOUT EIGHT 08:50.866 --> 08:52.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% -- 800, 900 PEOPLE COMING IN 08:52.066 --> 08:53.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THAT DAY TO BE HERE. 08:53.366 --> 08:54.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BUT IT ALSO SAID THIS WAS THE 08:54.900 --> 08:55.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TIME WHEN THE COMMUNITY NEEDED 08:55.933 --> 08:57.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO COME TOGETHER FOR ONE HOUR 08:57.566 --> 08:59.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND JUST BE THE HARAMBEE JUST 08:59.666 --> 09:01.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ALL PULL TOGETHER. 09:01.200 --> 09:02.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% LET'S JUST BE A COMMUNITY. 09:02.300 --> 09:04.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT WAS ABOUT WHETHER YOU'RE 09:04.000 --> 09:06.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BLACK, WHITE, JEWISH, PROTESTANT 09:06.466 --> 09:07.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% OR ANYTHING. 09:07.133 --> 09:08.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT WAS JUST COMMUNITY, WE ARE 09:08.666 --> 09:10.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ALL COMMUNITY. 09:10.300 --> 09:11.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND IT WAS JUST ONE OF THE MOST 09:11.300 --> 09:12.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EXCITING TIMES. 09:12.200 --> 09:13.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WE'RE LOOKING AT CARRYING IT ON 09:13.933 --> 09:16.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EVEN MORE SO NOW. 09:16.200 --> 09:18.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PEOPLE STOP AND SAY, OH, I 09:18.733 --> 09:20.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% REMEMBER THAT. 09:20.933 --> 09:24.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪ WE ARE THE WORLD ♪ 09:24.700 --> 09:32.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪ LET'S START LIVING ♪ 09:32.966 --> 09:39.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪ WE'RE SAVING OUR OWN LIVES ♪ 09:39.233 --> 09:45.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪ 09:45.600 --> 09:51.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% [APPLAUSE] 09:51.133 --> 09:52.500 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: SO FROM THE COMMUNITY, 09:52.500 --> 09:54.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% WHAT -- HOW CAN PEOPLE GET 09:54.200 --> 09:56.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INVOLVED IF THEY WANT TO HELP 09:56.033 --> 09:57.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YOU KEEP ALL THOSE WHEELS 09:57.300 --> 09:58.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TURNING? 09:58.000 --> 10:00.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> WE'RE TRYING TO CONTINUE OUR 10:00.066 --> 10:01.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INVOLVEMENT OF ALL THE OTHER 10:01.600 --> 10:03.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CLERGY AND OTHER COMMUNITY 10:03.633 --> 10:05.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MEMBERS TO, AGAIN, KEEP IT KEEP 10:05.766 --> 10:07.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT TRUE TO WHAT IT HAS BEEN. 10:07.766 --> 10:08.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: SO PEOPLE CAN GET 10:08.433 --> 10:09.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INVOLVED BY SINGING OR THEY CAN 10:09.900 --> 10:11.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GET INVOLVED BY VOLUNTEERING AND 10:11.833 --> 10:13.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HELPING TO ORGANIZE. 10:13.566 --> 10:14.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> YEAH 10:14.700 --> 10:15.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> TERRI: AND WHERE DO YOU SEE 10:15.400 --> 10:17.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THIS DOWN THE ROAD? 10:17.900 --> 10:19.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW THIS, 10:19.666 --> 10:21.300 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BUT IT'S -- I SEE IT TO CONTINUE 10:21.300 --> 10:22.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO GROW. 10:22.333 --> 10:24.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND I SEE IT AS BEING A VERY 10:24.700 --> 10:27.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% POSITIVE MESSAGE TO OUR 10:27.400 --> 10:29.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% COMMUNITY THAT WE CAN COME 10:29.633 --> 10:31.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TOGETHER ON SOMETHING THAT 10:31.666 --> 10:33.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BENEFITS EVERYBODY, AND HAS A 10:33.733 --> 10:35.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% POSITIVE EFFECT ON THEIR LIVES, 10:35.333 --> 10:37.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MATTERS. 10:37.433 --> 10:38.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MY FAVORITE SAYING IS THAT IF I 10:38.900 --> 10:40.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CAN HELP SOMEBODY AS I PASS 10:40.833 --> 10:44.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ALONG, IF I CAN SHOW SOMEBODY 10:44.233 --> 10:46.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THE TRAVELING -- MY LIVING IS 10:46.166 --> 10:47.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% NOT IN VAIN. 10:47.366 --> 10:48.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THAT'S WHAT DR. KING WAS 10:48.133 --> 10:48.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ABOUT. 10:48.566 --> 10:50.133 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND THAT'S THE MESSAGE I WANT TO 10:50.133 --> 10:53.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SEND IS TO LEARN TO HELP 10:53.533 --> 10:54.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SOMEBODY ELSE. 10:54.933 --> 10:56.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> I THINK THAT ONE OF THE MOST 10:56.600 --> 10:58.033 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IMPORTANT MESSAGES COMING FROM 10:58.033 --> 10:59.800 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% MLK IS ABOUT UNITY, AND 10:59.800 --> 11:00.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TOGETHERNESS. 11:00.900 --> 11:02.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE 11:02.433 --> 11:03.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ME, DOESN'T MEAN THAT I CAN'T 11:03.433 --> 11:04.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% RESPECT YOU, WHAT YOU HAVE TO 11:04.700 --> 11:06.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SAY I MAY NOT AGREE WITH IT. 11:06.200 --> 11:07.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SO WE CAN MEET AT A GOOD ENOUGH 11:07.833 --> 11:10.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% POINT THAT IT'S STILL FINE. 11:10.900 --> 11:12.933 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> IT'S A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL 11:12.933 --> 11:14.166 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GROUP OF PEOPLE. 11:14.166 --> 11:15.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SINGING 11:15.866 --> 11:17.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% AND GETTING TOGETHER AND 11:17.533 --> 11:19.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% FELLOWSHIP WITH THE CHOIR WITH 11:19.266 --> 11:20.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EACH AND EVERY YEAR. 11:20.266 --> 11:21.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THIS IS WHY I'VE DONE IT FOR 33 11:21.666 --> 11:22.666 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% YEARS. 11:22.666 --> 11:24.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAIT THAT 11:24.533 --> 11:26.366 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% PEOPLE COME AND BRING TO THIS IS 11:26.366 --> 11:28.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THEIR ENTHUSIASM AND THEIR 11:28.100 --> 11:28.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% SELVES. 11:28.900 --> 11:31.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BECAUSE WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER, WE 11:31.533 --> 11:33.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ARE SO MUCH STRONGER THAN WE ARE 11:33.433 --> 11:35.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% INDIVIDUALLY AND THAT'S WHAT 11:35.566 --> 11:38.200 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% THIS CHOIR MEANS TO ME. 11:38.200 --> 11:40.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% >> FOR ME, IT'S LIKE A PIECE OF 11:40.000 --> 11:41.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% HEAVEN BECAUSE WHEN WE ALL GET 11:41.533 --> 11:44.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% TO HEAVEN, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE 11:44.000 --> 11:44.733 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% DIVIDED. 11:44.733 --> 11:45.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BE TOGETHER 11:45.900 --> 11:46.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% IT'S GOING TO BE A HEAVENLY 11:46.900 --> 11:47.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% CHOIR WELL, IT'S JUST GOING TO 11:47.833 --> 11:48.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BE BEAUTIFUL. 11:48.700 --> 11:50.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% EVERYONE SINGING IN HARMONY AND 11:50.333 --> 11:51.700 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% LOVE AND UNITY. 11:51.700 --> 11:59.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪ 11:59.066 --> 12:08.000 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪ I'M GOING TO MARCH ON ♪ 12:08.000 --> 12:21.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% ♪♪♪