I Got a Song! | MMEA All-State Mixed Choir | Jason M. Ferdinand | Colin Lett | 7 Aug 2021 | Ich habe ein Lied! | J'ai une chanson ! | ¡Tengo una canción! |
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The Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) All-State Mixed Choir performed, “I Got a Song!” at Saint John’s Abbey Church, 2900 Abbey Plaza, Collegeville, Minnesota, U.S.A., on 7 August 2021.
The MMEA is a chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). The ACDA is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand, DMA-CC, the director of the MMEA All-State Mixed Choir at this event, is Director of Choral Activities, Music Department Chairman, and Professor at Oakwood University, where he conducts the Aeolians. He is the founding artistic director of The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers: An Ensemble of Exceptional Talents. Dr. Ferdinand is a member of the board of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO). He is a former board member of the Alabama chapter of the ACDA.
Reverend Colin Lett’s, “I Got a Song,” premiered during the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee weekend which commemorated the 51st Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This song was first sung at the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, on 3 March 2016.
A native of Selma, Rev. Lett, M.Div., MACC, BAVM, has prepared 4 arrangements which are a part of the African American Church Music Series with Gregorian Institute of America (GIA) Publications, Inc. and published in 2019 by Walton Music. Rev. Lett is the founder of the Colin Lett Chorale of Baltimore, Maryland. He is the conductor of the Selma High School Choir in Selma, Alabama. Rev. Lett is a former conductor of the Choir of Concordia College, Alabama. He takes great pride in his Selma High School choral students receiving scholarships to collegiate choral programs. The Selma High School Choir won first and second in its division in the 2017 Cultural Arts Center Choral Festival.
Rev. Lett’s passion is to change lives with the power of music. He believes his compositions and arrangements are his soul’s grateful expression of the heritage he was born into.
The full lyrics to, “I Got a Song!” are as follows:
“I got a song that the angels can't sing!
I got a song that the angels can't sing!
God gave me a song that the angels can't sing!
Oh, I been washed in the blood of the Lamb!
Well, now, if you don't believe I been redeemed,
Just follow me down to the Jordan stream.
Jordan river chilly and cold,
Well, it chilled my body, but not my soul.
I am redeemed! Yes! Bought with a price!
Oh yes, the blood has changed my whole life!
And if anybody asks you just who I am,
Just tell them that I am redeemed!”
The MMEA is a chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). The ACDA is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand, DMA-CC, the director of the MMEA All-State Mixed Choir at this event, is Director of Choral Activities, Music Department Chairman, and Professor at Oakwood University, where he conducts the Aeolians. He is the founding artistic director of The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers: An Ensemble of Exceptional Talents. Dr. Ferdinand is a member of the board of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO). He is a former board member of the Alabama chapter of the ACDA.
Reverend Colin Lett’s, “I Got a Song,” premiered during the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee weekend which commemorated the 51st Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This song was first sung at the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, on 3 March 2016.
A native of Selma, Rev. Lett, M.Div., MACC, BAVM, has prepared 4 arrangements which are a part of the African American Church Music Series with Gregorian Institute of America (GIA) Publications, Inc. and published in 2019 by Walton Music. Rev. Lett is the founder of the Colin Lett Chorale of Baltimore, Maryland. He is the conductor of the Selma High School Choir in Selma, Alabama. Rev. Lett is a former conductor of the Choir of Concordia College, Alabama. He takes great pride in his Selma High School choral students receiving scholarships to collegiate choral programs. The Selma High School Choir won first and second in its division in the 2017 Cultural Arts Center Choral Festival.
Rev. Lett’s passion is to change lives with the power of music. He believes his compositions and arrangements are his soul’s grateful expression of the heritage he was born into.
The full lyrics to, “I Got a Song!” are as follows:
“I got a song that the angels can't sing!
I got a song that the angels can't sing!
God gave me a song that the angels can't sing!
Oh, I been washed in the blood of the Lamb!
Well, now, if you don't believe I been redeemed,
Just follow me down to the Jordan stream.
Jordan river chilly and cold,
Well, it chilled my body, but not my soul.
I am redeemed! Yes! Bought with a price!
Oh yes, the blood has changed my whole life!
And if anybody asks you just who I am,
Just tell them that I am redeemed!”