Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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| Origin | Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Founding | 1847 (170 years ago) |
| Genre | Worship, classical, gospel |
| Members | 360 |
| Music Director | Mack Wilberg |
| Affiliation | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Associated groups | Orchestra at Temple Square, Temple Square Chorale, Bells on Temple Square |
| Awards |
National Medal of Arts American Classical Music Hall of Fame NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame Grammy Award Emmy Awards |
| Website | www |
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab or Tab Choir, is a 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360 piece choir named after the Salt Lake Tabernacle. The choir has performed in the Tabernacle for over a hundred years.
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.
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 choir was founded in August 1847, one month after the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.
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. Three hundred of the 600 members showed up for the 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.
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