Tabernacle Choir
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| Seat: | Salt Lake City / USA |
| Founding: | 1847 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Head : | Mack Wilberg |
| Voices : | 360 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/ |
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square) , previously Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Mormon Tabernacle Choir) is a mixed choir of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , who with some of the most important orchestras in the world has recorded. Mack Wilberg has been his music director since 2008 .
He is after the Tabernacle on Temple Square (Temple Square), the central place of the Mormons in Utah's state capital, Salt Lake City , named. "The tabernacle is a widely visible sign of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
Members
The choir consists of 360 singers and its members are volunteers. It was founded in 1847, shortly after the Mormon pioneers of Latter-day Saints , the Salt Lake Valley Lake had reached Salt City. In 1960, her album Lords Prayers topped the US charts for a week .
The singers must be members "in good standing", i. that is, they must meet the criteria required for a temple recommendation certificate . This includes, among other things, that choir members with a homosexual disposition are not allowed to practice their sexual inclination or enter into same-sex partnerships. Therefore, the One Voice Choir was founded, in part by former members of the Tabernacle Choir , which is also based in Salt Lake City and whose members consist of gay and lesbian Mormons (along with some straight parishioners).
Appearances
One of the oldest still running radio programs in America, Music and the Spoken Word , is a program of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; this has been broadcast every Sunday since July 15, 1929 and is broadcast by over 2000 radio and television stations around the world. The program can be viewed live on the Internet.
The choir performs in concert halls around the world, including performances in Mexico , South America , Canada , Japan , Australia , Israel and Russia . The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has performed at several inaugurations of the President of the United States ( Lyndon B. Johnson 1965, Richard Nixon 1969, Ronald Reagan 1981, George HW Bush 1989, George W. Bush 2001, Donald Trump 2017) and at the White House .
In 2016 he performed on a European tour in Berlin, Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, Zurich, Brussels and Rotterdam.
Awards
- National Medal of Arts (2003)
- National Radio Hall of Fame (2010), for Music and the Spoken Word
Web links
- History of the Tabernacle Choir
- hr-online.de: Before the presidential election - the USA in view: The Mormon Archives (with information on the choir)
- Live broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word
Individual evidence
- ↑ lds.org: The Spirit of the Tabernacle
- ↑ hlt.at: The Tabernacle Choir ( Memento from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Georg Hirsch: One Voice Choir. The chorus of the outcasts. www.br.de/radio/br-classic, January 16, 2013.
- ↑ Music & the spoken word: self-presentation
- ↑ thetabernaclechoir.org: Music and the Spoken Word (accessed May 5, 2019)
- ^ Stephen A. Marini: Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture (= Public Express Religion America ). University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL et al. 2003, ISBN 0-252-02800-7 , p. 224 ( online ).
- ^ Music and the Spoken Word live
- ^ Maxine Hanks, Jean Kinney Williams: Mormon Faith in America . In: J. Gordon Melton (Ed.): Faith in America . Facts on File, 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4991-2 , pp. 65 .
- ^ Mark David Porcaro: The secularization of the repertoire of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, 1949-1992 . Dissertation. Ed .: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . August 2006, p. 5 ( in the Carolina Digital Repository ).
- ^ Davis Bitton, Thomas G. Alexander: The A to Z of Mormonism . In: The A to Z Guide Series . tape 110 . Scarecrow Press , 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-7060-4 , pp. xxiv .
- ↑ Tour announcement of the Tabernacle Choir
- ^ Davis Bitton, Thomas G. Alexander: The A to Z of Mormonism . In: The A to Z Guide Series . tape 110 . Scarecrow Press , 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-7060-4 , pp. xxv .
- ^ Music and the Spoken Word. In: National Radio Hall of Fame . Retrieved January 16, 2017 .