A Merry Little Christmas CD
Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer Sutton Foster and acclaimed British actor Hugh Bonneville join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for a spectacular full-scale Christmas program that tugs at the heartstrings and bursts with the joy of the season. Hugh Bonneville's narration of the story behind the beloved hymn "It Is Well with My Soul" celebrates peace in the midst of tragedy, and Sutton Foster's crystal clear voice and vibrant stage presence thrills and captivates all in attendance. Viewed by 60,000 audience members and millions more through PBS television broadcast, this show includes world-class music, dance, storytelling, and visual effects.
Songs include:
Joy to the World
Just Once a Year
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Christmas Time Is Here, from A Charlie Brown Christmas
Unfold, Ye Portals, from The Redemption
Sing!
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Pure Imagination, from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory A Golden Age Christmas
Jingle Bells
I Saw Three Ships
It Is Well with My Soul
Silent Night
Luke 2: The Christmas Story
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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.