Mac Christensen
Choir President Mack Wilberg
Music Director Edgar Thompson
Interim Assistant Director Igor Gruppman
Conductor, Orchestra at Temple Square
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360 member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church). However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to support the organization. The choir's current music director is Mack Wilberg.
Called "America's Choir" by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is made up of 360 men and women, all 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 radio broadcast. Choir members are not paid for their participation, travel expenses nor performances. There are many husband-wife combinations and some families have participated in the choir for generations.
The choir was founded in August 1847, one month after the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley. Since July 15, 1929, the choir has performed a weekly radio broadcast called Music and the Spoken Word, which is the longest-running continuous network broadcast in the world. The show has been televised since the early 1960s and is now broadcast worldwide through some 1,500 radio, television, and cable stations.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's sound is often said to be world-famous, and instantly recognizable. When recording, the choir is usually accompanied by the Orchestra at Temple Square or the Tabernacle's famous pipe organ. With the completion of the Conference Center, a larger auditorium directly adjacent to Temple Square, the choir now has two halls available for performance.
The minimum age for participation in the choir has recently been reduced from 30 to 25. Choir members are currently limited to twenty years of participation, or until the member reaches the age of 60, allowing new members to join the choir on a regular basis. New choir members participate in The Temple Square Chorale training choir, a combination music theory/performance school.
The Choir would like to personally thank each and every one of you for visiting this Myspace page. It is our joy and our hope that the every person in the world would be touched and blessed by this wonderful music!
Once again, thank you so very much for visiting this page!
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-The Mormon Tabernacle Choir www.mormontabernaclechoir.org
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teach a child wisdom in the way he should go and when he is older he will not depart from it let us raise them with the understanding of true love that mankind may be uplifted to a higher state of being. good parenting can and will make a difference
i'm sending over some of my uplifting friends to brighten up your day! may your day be filled with sunshine and your sky be colorful, thanks for your friendship, codie
Hi from Houston, TX!! Thanks for the add. WHenever you come out to Houston, my husband, kids and i would love to take you and your entourage on a tour of the town. This is the organization that I volunteer with: http://hisdpta.bravehost.com/hisdpta.html I hope you and yours can make it to our Founders' Day Event!
Thank you very much for the add. My family and I are members, and we all enjoy listening to the Tabernacle sing. Thank you again, and have a very safe and Merry Christmas!!!
WONDERFUL Christmas Music on here! I'm so excited about this new CD and look forward to owning it someday soon! I'm really excited about the song, The Spirit of the Season. I've only heard it one other time on the movie the Polar Express. I love the song and the spirit it brings with it! Thank you for SINGING! :)
Myspace is blessed to have your music on here, and I am so grateful because of it! Know that you continue to bring a smile to thousands of people through your music, and, in the words of pop singer Rihanna, please don't stop the music!
Thanks for the add! I just got my letter this week and I'm one of the newest/youngest members now of this phenomenol choir! Love the profile songs btw! Can't wait to start singing with you guys!
I Watch the Choir on BYU Television,on Direct TV.Also available on Internet Radio Station KSL,BUT... Music and the Spoken Word is not on the free Radio in Okla,City.Some have not the internet and some dont want it.Not since Radio Station ,WKY 930 AM.I was wondering how come?Is the Radio not popular enough, or passe?
