Article: Choir presents program to honor Pres. Hinckley

During its Sunday morning broadcast of "Music and the Spoken Word," the Mormon Tabernacle Choir paid tribute to President Gordon B. Hinckley.

President Hinckley, who passed away one week earlier, had been the choir's adviser for 37 years.

"We lovingly called him 'friend' because of his extraordinary supervision of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and its broadcasts for so many decades," said Lloyd K. Newell, the choir's announcer.

"No one has loved 'Music and the Spoken Word' more; few have had a greater influence upon it. President Hinckley has overseen the broadcast since 1971. He has been its champion and visionary leader from the broadcast's mid-life to the present. But more than that, he has ...

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