Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tickets on sale!

Choir Summer Tour Tickets on Sale; Going Fast

With 2009 in full swing, the Choir and Orchestra are busily preparing for another year full of concerts, recordings, weekly broadcasts and this year, the Central States Tour.
The 13-day trip across the heartland of America will feature concerts at some of the most celebrated venues in the country including the Riverbend Music Festival with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops and the Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver. In addition, the Choir will perform at venues in St. Louis, Des Moines, Omaha and Norman, Oklahoma. The Choir will perform seven concerts during their trip, making it a busy and demanding tour.
“Each tour brings its own challenges and its own blessings,” says Mack Wilberg, Music Director of the Choir. “For this tour, we’ve decided to include some new repertoire in addition to the hymns, classical works and patriotic numbers that always have a place on the program. My hope is that we can introduce audiences to some great music while still singing pieces like ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ and ‘Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.’ It should be a wonderful concert.”
In addition to some new and varied music, the Choir will also feature a number of arrangements from its new album entitled Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing: American Folk Hymns and Spirituals. The album features all four of Mack Wilberg’s American Folk Hymns series on one album and other favorites such as “Battle of Jericho” and an inspirational rendition of “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me,” with soloist Alex Boyé. Each concert on the Choir and Orchestra’s 2009 tour is sure to be a memorable evening of uplifting music, something not to miss.
Tickets for the concerts are still available through the box office or through on-line ticket outlets such as Ticketmaster.com. For more information on how to obtain tickets and to see the details of the 2009 tour locations, visit mormontabernaclechoir.org