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Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360-voice
group that began shortly after the Latter-day Saint pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is best known for its weekly
Sunday broadcast in the United States, Music and the Spoken
Word, which originates from Temple Square in Salt Lake
City. This program has been a weekly tradition in America
since 1929 and is carried on hundreds of radio, television and
cable stations. In 2003, the choir will begin a yearlong
celebration of its 75th year of broadcasting as the
longest continuous network broadcast in the world.
The choir is also known for its recordings, among them a
Grammy Award-winning rendition of "Battle Hymn of the
Republic." Its recordings have earned two platinum and
five gold albums. The choir has recorded with some of the
world's great orchestras, including the Philadelphia
Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. It now performs regularly with
the Orchestra at Temple Square, a 110-member symphony of Church members — all volunteer like the
choir — formed in 1999
under the direction of Church President Gordon B. Hinckley.
Concert tours over the years have taken the choir to the great concert
halls of Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Australia,
Israel, Russia and the United States. The choir has also
performed for numerous United States presidents, both at
inaugural ceremonies and in the White House. The choir
recently performed in the 2002
Winter Olympic Games opening ceremonies in Salt Lake City.
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