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The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
Biography
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square is the group long known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Renamed in 2018, it remains one of the world's most famous and accomplished choral ensembles. It is affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and choristers must be members of the church and recommended by its temple in Salt Lake City, within 100 miles of which they are required to live. The choir is one of the world's largest regularly constituted groups. In 1929, the choir inaugurated a weekly radio program, Music and the Word, on Salt Lake City's KSL radio; it continues to air and is among the world's longest-running radio programs. Its annual Christmas concerts have featured the likes of Gladys Knight and Renée Fleming. The choir's recordings include patriotic music and classical compositions in addition to sacred music. In 2019, it released the album Angels Among Us.