Category: Mormon Tabernacle Choir songs

Category: Mormon Tabernacle Choir songs

In 1929 the Mormon Tabernacle Choir began broadcasting a weekly performance on national radio, becoming an asset for public relations.

The 360-member, all-volunteer Mormon Tabernacle Choir

He performed a special arrangement of " Fragile " with Yo-Yo Ma and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, US.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir.

Called " America's Choir " by U. S. President Ronald Reagan, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is made up of 360 men and women ; all are members of the LDS Church in good standing.

Although many choir members live within close proximity of the famous Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, some members commute long distances for practice and the Choir's weekly television and radio broadcast.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's sound is often said to be world-famous, and instantly recognizable.

The organ has long been associated with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's " signature sound ," though the Choir does sing a capella or to orchestral accompaniment as well.

By 1950 the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed numerous concerts each year and had released its first long-playing recording.

Logo from 2004 for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's celebrations of 75 years of Music and the Spoken Word

Since its establishment more than 150 years ago, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has performed and recorded extensively, not only in the United States but around the world.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has sung for every president of the United States beginning with President William Howard Taft.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has about 15 staff members including: the president, directors, organists, Music and the Spoken Word announcer, and two business related staff members.

The largest act to chart on the Hot 100 is the 320-person Mormon Tabernacle Choir, whose version of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic " reached # 13 according to the The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits in 1959.

Since its first recording in 1910, the choir has earned five gold albums ( two in 1963-The Lord's Prayer and Handel's Messiah, one in 1979-The Joy of Christmas, and two in 1985-The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols and Joy to the World ) and two platinum albums ( in 1991-Hallmark Christmas: Carols of Christmas and 1992-Hallmark Christmas: Celebrate Christmas !).

* The Men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir ( 2010 )

* List of Mormon Tabernacle Choir Music Directors

* Information on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Utah. com

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* Evan Stephens, Mormon Tabernacle Choir director

He performed a special arrangement of Sting's " Fragile " with Sting and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Although the huge-scale oratorio tradition was perpetuated by such large ensembles as the Royal Choral Society, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Huddersfield Choral Society in the 20th century, there were increasingly calls for performances more faithful to Handel's conception.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

In April 1844, Joseph Smith referred to polygamy as " John C. Bennett's spiritual wife system " and warned " if any man writes to you, or preaches to you, doctrines contrary to the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or the book of Doctrine and Covenants, set him down as an imposter.

In the opinion of non-Mormon author Wesley Walters, apologists for the Mormon position treat Smith's reference to the " whole district of country " as if they referred to " some kind of statewide revival, without notice of the fact that he is talking about a revival that commenced with the Methodists ' in the place where we lived ' and then became general among all the sects in that region of country.

Exaltation is often referred to in Mormon Christianity as " eternal progression " and is believed to be what God desires for all humankind.

This doctrine is generally referred to by scholars both inside and outside Mormon Christianity as the Christian deification.

This high priesthood had been foreshadowed in the Book of Mormon, which referred to men holding the unique position of high priest in the church organization described in that book, holding the " high priesthood of the holy order of God " (, ); however, the office of high priest was not implemented in early Mormonism until some days after Joseph Smith, Jr. was joined in his ministry by Sidney Rigdon, a newly-converted Church of Christ minister from Ohio, who merged his congregation with Smith's Church of Christ.

A temple garment ( also referred to as garments, or Mormon underwear ) is a type of underwear worn by a vast majority of adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, after they have taken part in the Endowment ceremony.

In dictating the Book of Mormon, Smith said he used these " interpreters ," which he later referred to as " Urim and Thummim.

Additionally, his people referred to themselves as " Nephites " – a name that would follow them through the entire 1000 year history given in the Book of Mormon.

* Jones referred to Catholicism as " the religion of the anti-Christ and a Satanic system " and called Mormonism and Catholicism " cults which call themselves Christian ," but in October 2007, he endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a devout Mormon, for the Republican nomination for President.

The first, " Book of Mormon Difficulties: A Study ," was a 141-page manuscript written in response to a series of questions by an inquirer, referred to Roberts by Mormon president Heber Grant.

A Mormon settler group led by Peter Maughan arrived via Box Elder Canyon ( commonly referred to as Sardine Canyon ) in July 1856 and additional settlers arrived on September 15.

However, the name Mahonri Moriancumer is found nowhere in the text of the Book of Mormon, but he is consistently referred to as the " Brother of Jared.

This conflict is also sometimes referred to as the Missouri Mormon War to differentiate it from the Utah Mormon War ( also known as the " Utah War ") and the lesser known Illinois Mormon War.

In the text of the Book of Mormon, the Mulekites are referred to as the " people of Zarahemla ".

According to the Book of Mormon, Alma, the son of Alma () was a Nephite prophet often referred to as " Alma the Younger " to distinguish him from his father, who is often referred to as " Alma the Elder ".

In the Book of Mormon, the land of Lehi-Nephi () ( also referred to as the land of Nephi ) is the homeland of the Nephites in the early times of the Book of Mormon.

While the order is often referred to as the " Mormon Extermination Order " due to the phrasing used by Boggs, relatively few people were killed as a direct result of its issuance.