It’s been a while since I have posted. Busy, busy bee I am between my day job and preparing for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I am serving on a committee to host the choir and a group of community leaders.
Most of the area’s 15,000 Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons) can’t remember a time when the Tabernacle Choir has performed here. It’s been 51 years after all.
In subsequent posts I’ll share my involvement and behind-the-scenes activities, any I experience, as well as little known trivia facts about the choir.
Here is one: National Geographic’s “USA101″ recently named the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as one of America’s top icons.
Mostly, I hope many of you will experience the concert for yourself. We have heard them on TV at the Olympics and presidential inaugurations or weekly on the radio, but it is an amazing experience to hear the choir in person.
And the choir in recent years has embraced new styles of music with its own unique interpretation. Let’s say, the choir is more “hip” than in the past. Maybe “contemporary” would be the word. Regardless, I like the direction. My favorite numbers are the feet tapping ones.
From the press release:
“I think people, especially in these times, resonate with the songs and
hymns sung by the Choir,” says Mack Wilberg, music director. “There is
something for everyone, from the classics to Broadway, from music of the
world, to American folk hymns and spirituals.”The Choir will perform such crowd favorites as “Amazing Grace,” “Danny Boy,”
and of course its Grammy Award-winning rendition of “The Battle Hymn of the
Republic.” Also on the program is the rousing Nigerian carol “Betelehemu,”
which according to the Choir’s announcer Lloyd Newell “won’t be like
anything you’ve heard from this Choir.” It combines singing, clapping,
shouting and swaying, while accompanied by stirring percussion music.
Tickets for the 2009 concerts are on sale at all concert venues, through
various online ticket agencies, over the phone and also online at
www.mormontabernaclechoir.org.
Box Office
St. Louis
Saturday, June 20 Scottrade Center
7:30 p.m. www.ticketmaster.com <http://www.ciweb.org>
(314) 241-1888 Scottrade