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Featuring: Huge Bonneville & Sutton Foster
For more than a century, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has given voice to the hopes, joys, trials, and triumphs of people around the world. This 360-member chorus of men and women, all volunteers, has performed to critical acclaim throughout the world and on television broadcasts and online
Songs: Joy to the World, It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Christmas Time Is Here, Unfold Ye Portals(from The Redemption), Sing!, Sunshine on My Shoulder, Pure Imagination (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), Sleigh Ride, A Golden Age Christmas (medley), Jingle Bells, I Saw Three Ships, Silent Night, Angels from the Realms of Glory
Hugh Bonneville was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, studied theology at Cambridge, and made his professional debut in 1986 in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Following several seasons with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has become a familiar face to television audiences in both comedies and dramas, receiving a Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations for his performance as Robert, Earl of Grantham on Downton Abbey
Actress, singer, and dancer Sutton Foster can currently be seen starring as the lead of the hit TV Land series Younger. Her many Broadway roles include Tony Award-winning performances in Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has released two solo albums, Wish and An Evening with Sutton Foster: Live at the Café Carlyle, and has made numerous television appearances, including on Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Bunheads, and Sesame Street. Ms. Foster holds an honorary doctorate from Ball State University, where she also teaches.
The 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir represent men and women from many different backgrounds and professions and range in age from 25 to 60. They reflect a medley of unique lives and experiences and are brought together by their love for singing and their faith. Their incomparable voices are the common chord that unites to form the choral group known all over the world as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir originated in the mid-19th century in Salt Lake City. As the Latter-day Saints moved west, Church President Brigham Young included musicians among members of the advance parties. Consequently, a small choir first sang for a conference of the Church in the Salt Lake Valley on August 22, 1847, just 29 days after the first group arrived. The origins of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir may be found in the desire and commitment of early converts to include appropriate music in both sacred and secular events.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has appeared at 13 world's fairs and expositions, performed at the inaugurations of five U.S. presidents, and sung for numerous worldwide telecasts and special events. Five of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's recordings have achieved "gold record" and two have achieved "platinum record" status. The most popular was the Grammy-Award-winning 1959 release of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Producer: Deseret Book