MUSIC

The 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and 65 members of the Orchestra at Temple Square 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 performing and their faith. Their incomparable music is the common chord that unites to form the choral group known all over the world as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

The 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. The Orchestra accompanies the Choir on its weekly Music and the Spoken Word radio and TV broadcast, on concerts, and on tour. Formed in 1999, the Orchestra, like the Choir, is composed entirely of unpaid volunteers.

Five of the Choir's recordings have achieved "gold record" and two have achieved "platinum record" status. The most popular was the 1959 release of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" recorded with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra which won a Grammy award for Choir conductor Richard P. Condie. The Choir has its own recording label and has released 25 CDs in the past 10 years with many of those releases reaching the top of Billboard magazine’s classical charts.