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The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, is an American choir affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It has performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for over 100 years. [ 3 ]
He also was appointed by Evan Stephens to direct a choir made up of those members of the Tabernacle Choir that did not go to the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 and thus provide music at the Tabernacle while most of the Tabernacle Choir was absent. [4] Thomas married Charlotte Gibbs. Charlotte died in 1875 and in 1878 Thomas married Amy H. Adams.
The Tabernacle is the home of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and was the previous home of the Utah Symphony Orchestra until the construction of Abravanel Hall. It is the historic broadcasting home for the radio and television program known as Music and the Spoken Word. The Salt Lake Tabernacle organ
The choir is sometimes called “America’s Choir,” after U.S. President Ronald Reagan dubbed the Tabernacle Choir this name in 1981 when the choir performed at his inauguration.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has received six Grammy Awards. [10] [11] It is directed by Carol Cymbala, the wife of the main Pastor, Jim Cymbala. [12] The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at the 2013 second inauguration of Barack Obama. [13] The church has held three two-hour services weekly. [14]
J. Spencer Kinard is an American radio and television personality He was a reporter for KSL television when he was invited to replace Richard L. Evans as voice of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Kinard had previously worked for CBS in New York. He spent 18 years as the voice of the choir. [1]
Directed the choir for its first recording, and was the first employed full-time. [2] Anthony C. Lund: 1916–35 [4] Directed the choir for its first national performance of Music and the Spoken Word on July 15, 1929. [2] J. Spencer Cornwall: 1935–57 [6] Directed the choir in the film This is Cinerama, [7] and for its first performance abroad ...
Robert Sands (April 15, 1828 – December 7, 1872) [1] was the fifth conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; however, he was the first after the building of the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. [2]