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Mormon Tabernacle Choir marks 100th anniversary
One hundred years ago Wednesday the Mormon Tabernacle Choir recorded its first album. Now 175 albums, five gold records, two platinum records and a Grammy later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has been recording longer than any other recording artist in the United States. "Just think - we've been...
Mormon Tabernacle Choir voted into National Radio Hall of Fame
"Music and the Spoken Word," the longest-running radio broadcast in the U.S., has been voted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. "We thank the Radio Hall of Fame and all of our listeners who honored us in this way," said Mac Christensen, president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. A public...
Mormon Tabernacle Choir excels in pioneer tribute
It's not always easy to condense 100 years of history into an hour-and-a-half. But the Mormon Tabernacle Choir did just that at its annual Pioneer Day Concert on Friday night. With glorious music, spoken word and video clips, it did it in a way that not only highlighted significant periods and...
Pioneer spirit: Mormon Tabernacle Choir celebrates Days of '47 and its own long history
From its beginning, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has celebrated the efforts of pioneers, of those who carved out homes in the wilderness, made the desert blossom as a rose, built cities and established institutions. This year's Pioneer Day Commemoration Concert on Friday will focus on the choir's...
"America the Beautiful" live at Jefferson Memorial with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mormon Tabernacle Choir CD hits No. 1 on Billboard chart
One hundred years in the making, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's latest CD has reached another milestone. "100: Celebrating a Century of Recording History" hit No.1 on Billboard's Classical Overall chart this week. Released in mid-June, the three-disc set features some of the choir's "greatest...
Mormon Tabernacle Choir marks recording milestone
In the decades since 1910, the all-volunteer Mormon Tabernacle choir -- which today has 360 members -- has recorded 175 albums, earned five gold records, two platinum records and a Grammy award. Music lovers can now hear some of those earliest recordings on a new 32-track, three-disc combination...
'Music and the Spoken Word' a candidate for National Radio Hall of Fame
"Music and the Spoken Word," the world's longest-running continuous network broadcast, as well as the longest-running radio broadcast in America, has been nominated by the for a spot in the National Radio Hall of Fame in the "National Pioneer" category. Public online voting for the awards begins...
Young choir members juggling life and music
When considering the makeup of the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir, most picture middle-age to older men and women, dressed in their respective matching outfits, creating beautiful music with their mature voices of gold. But would you be interested to know that more and more singers in their...
Mormon Tabernacle Choir: New associate director hitting the right notes
In a rehearsal earlier this week, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singers weren't getting the specific sound that associate music director Ryan Murphy was seeking. So Murphy explained: "Like you're slipping on a banana peel." Unorthodox, perhaps, but "everybody got it," tenor Scott Russon said....
Mormon Tabernacle Choir documentary to air
The opportunity to "travel with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir" from the comfort of home is being offered between the Sunday sessions of general conference, April 4, in the form of a documentary produced by BYU TV that brings to life the sights, sounds and emotions of the choir's 2009 summer tour,...
Mormon Tabernacle Choir Documentary to Air on BYU TV
One of the most frequently asked questions the Mormon Tabernacle Choir receives when it embarks on a tour is "How do you move so many people from city to city?" BYU TV followed the Choir on its last tour in 2009. The resulting two-part documentary, titled "One Voice," provides a behind-the-scenes...
New Tabernacle Choir CD 'Heavensong' sings of spiritual bliss
Music is a tangible link between heaven and Earth. With its power to lighten and enlighten the mind and the soul, it can take us to a better place, Mormon Tabernacle Choir director Mack Wilberg says. That's the reasoning behind the choir's newest CD release, called "Heavensong," which contains a...
