Doug Wright tours the Tabernacle
We told the folks at Temple Square that Doug Wright Show has live from the Salt Lake Tabernacle on his broadcast bucket list, and they not only gave him the go-ahead to host his show there, they gave him a personal, behind-the-scenes tour - complete with the opportunity to play the organ!
Salt Lake City, UT
Today we stopped in Salt Lake City to explore the heart of the city! This involved visiting the immense Temple Square, home of The Church of Latter-Day Saints! Temple Square comprises many square blocks and building. The most famous of which is the Tabernacle where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform! Unfortunately we could not see a recital; however, we did get to hear an Organ recital which sounded fantastic!
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Salt Lake City: Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360-member choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus AChrist of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
The Tabernacle houses an organ consisting of 11,623 pipes. The choir is usually accompanied by it. An orchestra or a cappella singing is used as well.
The choir was founded in August 1847, one month after the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley. Prospective singers must be LDS Church members who are eligible for a temple recommend, be between 25 and 55 years of age at the start of choir service, and live within 100 miles of Temple Square.
The Tabernacle was completed in 1867 and the choir held its first concert there on July 4, 1873.
The choir started out fairly small and rather undisciplined. In 1869, George Careless was appointed as the choir's conductor and the Tabernacle Choir began to musically improve. Under Careless, the first large choir was assembled by adding smaller choral groups to the main Salt Lake Choir. This larger choir, just over 300, sang at the church's October 1873 general conference. It was at this point that the choir began to match the size of the spacious Tabernacle. On September 1, 1910, the choir sang the song, Let the Mountains shout for Joy, as their first ever recording.
Since July 15, 1929, the choir has performed a weekly radio broadcast called Music & the Spoken Word, which is one of the longest-running continuous radio network broadcasts in the world.
Later directors brought more solid vocal training and worked to raise the standards of the choir. The choir also began improving as an ensemble and increased its repertoire from around one hundred songs to nearly a thousand. In July 1929, the choir performed its first radio broadcast of Music & the Spoken Word. It now broadcasts worldwide through approximately 1,500 radio and television stations.
Mormon Assembly Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah
Day 49 7-18-16 The Assembly Hall is just like a church - you would go in there on Sunday's.
Postlude at Cathedral in Spokane
the new tabernacle (salt lake utah)
video
Logan Tabernacle Organ
Performance 7/1/2016
Paul Cacia - The Jazz Singer
Paul Cacia Live with The Mormon Tabernacle Youth Symphony and Chorus - MYSC
Recorded in Salt Lake City in 1980
MYSC (The Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus), this group was the predecessor of the current Mormon Tabernacle Symphony and Choir performing today.
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Deseret News - Salt Lake City, Utah 1980
Concert Review By: Dorothy Stowe - Music Critic
An earsplitting blast which set up sympathetic vibrations in the organ pipes and caused some concern that the venerable walls of the tabernacle would come tumbling down, was created by Trumpeter Paul Cacia, Wednesday’s soloist with the Symphony & Choir.
Cacia, a spectacular artist who has toured as the Lead trumpet player with Al Hirt and His Big Band as well as numerous other name acts, operates on the proposition that if you’ve got it flaunt it.
He made no concessions to his surroundings, no attempt to tamp down his volume or moderate his shrill galvanic high tones and quite commendably so, for if music is worth doing, then its worth doing in its own idiom and stretched out to the limit of its possibilities. If you’re going at all, you might as well go for broke!
Largely un-amplified, Cacia filled the hall with his distinctive tone, round and clear which made a sweet poignant effect in the lyrical “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” but on “The Medley From Annie” he curled up in a ball, then uncoiled like a spring to launch a series of piercing wails and solidly supported shrieks that flew across the hall like the girders of that bridge and shocked the complacent audience into an enthusiastic reaction and standing ovation. Offering the uncompromising style of an expert soloist, Paul Cacia did indeed begin the summer season excitingly!
A Site To See: Behind The Scenes On Temple Square
Every year millions of people visit Temple Square, now you can experience it like you never have before. We’ll take you behind the scenes of this most fascinating tourist attraction. Go inside the vast greenhouses where the beautiful flowers are grown and meet the gardeners in charge of keeping the grounds pristine. Get a look behindthe massive Tabernacle Organ, see what it takes to outfit the world-class Tabernacle Choir, and experience how these singers practice for perfection. Then, Tag along with Chevy the security dog as he sniffs out potential problems on the Square. And finally, go inside an area the public never sees—the sister missionaries’ Teaching Center. It’s a tour that will leave you wanting more.
Inside the World of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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You can hear music coming from this building in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the Salt Lake Tabernacle, also called the Mormon Tabernacle. This is the home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Scott Barrick is general manager of the choir.
SCOTT BARRICK: The choir traces its roots back to 1847, when the first Mormon pioneers came into the Salt Lake Valley. There was a conference of the church three weeks after that first band arrived. And there was a choir. And they sang at that meeting. And ever since, there has been a standing choir at the church headquarters here in Salt Lake City.
The choir has 360 members. Every one of them belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each one is also a volunteer. Michelle Scott tells how she became a choir member.
MICHELLE SCOTT: You create a CD and you send that in, and if they like what they hear, then you take a test on theory and ear training. And it's about a three-hour test. It's quite involved, quite intense. And then, if you pass that test, then there is an in-person audition with both of the directors.
Ron Gunnell is an assistant to the choir's president.
DONALD GUNNELL: It is a rigorous commitment. And it, for example, last year I think we were at the Tabernacle or Conference Center probably about 178 days out of the year for choir recordings, concerts, rehearsals. A lot of people travel nearly a hundred miles each way to be here.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will sometimes invite other artists to perform. Jazz singer Natalie Cole, Italian singer Andrea Bocelli and composer John Williams have all performed with the choir. The Tabernacle is also home to one of the largest organs in the world. Richard Elliott is the main organist for the choir.
RICHARD ELLIOTT: There are pipes in this organ in the Tabernacle that date back all the way to the 1860s, around 1867, including the large gold pipes that you see in the case. It has 11,623 pipes, making it the 12th largest pipe organ in the world. But what makes it truly great is this building itself. It has a wonderful acoustic, and shows the organ in its best light.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs on a weekly, 30-minute program called Music and the Spoken Word. The program was first broadcast in 1929. It can now be heard on more than 2,000 radio and television stations around the world. Trent Walker is the main audio engineer.
TRENT WALKER: The show is a wonderful show to do, because we try to make it as high quality as we can for a live production. A show in the Tabernacle will be in excess of probably 74 microphones on the stage at once. We multi-track record all of those shows so we can then produce the best sound quality that we can, for the listening audience. Over the years, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has won many awards for its performances in the United States and overseas. Mack Wilberg is its music director.
MACK WILBERG: Not everyone likes everything. And so we try to do a balance of not only the great music of the master composers, but also hymns -- a staple of the repertoire of the choir. Sometimes we'll put in folk music, African-American spirituals, sometimes a little bit of inspirational show tunes, from Broadway or a movie of some kind.
For years, the choir has performed for millions of people of all religions. It is likely to do so for years to come. I'm Christopher Cruise.
Pioneer Day 2019| Fireworks At Liberty Park Salt Lake City Utah
This is how Utah people celebrated 2019 pioneer day at 24th July, 2019.
Pioneer Day is an official holiday celebrated on July 24 in the American state of Utah, with some celebrations taking place in regions of surrounding states originally settled by Mormon pioneers.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Saw this rehearsal of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir when we visited Salt Lake City
Dr. Kathy Sorensen 2010 Historic & Creative Arts Award
Dr. Kathy Sorensen is the founder of the award-winning International Children's Choir. In Pennsylvania,Kathy built a thriving flute studio and renovated a colonial one-room schoolhouse where she taught music and held candlelight concerts. She gave up everything to come to Utah to earn a PhD at the University of Utah and teach at BYU. Kathy interviewed hundreds of immigrants and refugees, recording and transcribing their songs and stories. With this research, she pioneered multicultural models for Macmillan McGraw Hill Publishers, educational materials for Hal Leonard Music and the foundation of the International Children's Choir. Under her direction,the International Children's Choir has performed in 30 languages in authentic costumes worldwide, including the Opening Ceremonies of the World Choir Olympics in China,the International Society of Music Education in Norway, the Winter Olympics in Utah. Appearances include
concerts with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony and Opera.
Pioneers of Progress:
The Days of '47 recognizes modern-day pioneering accomplishments of men and women who have notably uplifted and benefited humanity, and the organization encourages and teaches pioneering principles.
SLC Tabernacle Organ, June 24th 2010.MP4
Das LDS-Konferenzzentrum des Convention Center in Salt Lake City (engl. LDS Conference Center)
Das Salt Palace Convention Center verfügt nach mehreren Erweiterungen über umgerechnet 47.843 Quadratmeter Ausstellungs- und 15.235 Quadratmeter Konferenzraumfläche. Über das Jahr verteilt finden dort diverse Ausstellungen und Konferenzen statt. Es dient unter anderem als Versammlungsraum für die halbjährlich stattfindenden Generalkonferenzen der Kirche, die auch über Fernsehen, Rundfunk und Internetstreaming übertragen werden. Es ist mit seinen 21.000 Sitzplätzen der größte religiös genutzte Zuhörerraum, der sich innerhalb eines Gebäudes befindet. Beeindruckend ist nicht zuletzt der freitragende Balkon im Innenraum, dessen statische Anforderungen nur durch einen Spezialstahl aus Belgien erfüllt werden konnten. Die Orgel des Konferenzzentrums enthält 7667 Pfeifen. Der gesamte Komplex ist 139.350 m² groß. Es wurden 80.450 km Kabel im Gebäude verlegt.
MTC sound of music BethCC in SLC
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearsal.
This Land Is Your Land - Jerry Gray Conducts The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Jerry Gray of The Travellers conducts the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with their rendition of This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
Salt Lake City, Utah (Temple Square)
Die Stadt wurde weltweit zum Zentrum der Mormonen.
Eindrucksvoll ist der Temple Square mit dem Mormon Temple, dem geistigen Mittelpunkt von Salt Lake City.
Der Tempel dieser Sekte ist für Nichtmormonen geschlossen.
Sissel Joins Tabernacle Choir for Pioneer Day Concert
World-renowned vocalist Sissel is celebrating the spirit of the pioneers during performances with the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. The annual Pioneer Day concert commemorates the arrival of Latter-day Saint pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847 — 172 years ago. Thousands gathered in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday night , July 19, 2019, to enjoy “Music for a Summer Evening” with the Norwegian-born vocalist.
Rededication of the Tabernacle
The rededication of the Salt Lake L.D.S. Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. March 31, 2007.
The Salt Lake Tribune