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A Mormon Record | Leroy Robertson, Book of Mormon Oratorio

Mormons know Governor Romney, Billy Casper, Gene Fullmer, and Grant Johannesen. Most have heard of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Fewer know of Gershwin, Bernstein, Copland, Bloch.  But who can name the Church’s only living composer of…

On Mormon Music and Musicians

In the interest of broadening (and corroborating) my thinking about Mormon music, I recently contacted fifty Mormon musicians in an admittedly non-scientific survey. The survey sampled the obvious Church music hierarchy: the General Music Committee,…

Three Recent Tabernacle Choir Recordings | The Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s Greatest Hits, Anvil Chorus, and Symphony No. 9 (Chorale) in D Minor, Op. 125

While the Tabernacle Choir’s total output of albums annually may be less than that of some orchestras, no classical recording organization approaches the Choir’s sales per album. This may be attributed to three factors: the…

Livre d’Artiste: The Book of Abraham by Day Christensen and Wulf Barsch