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Article: Tabernacle Choir broadcast celebrates 80 years
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2009
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One of Utah's most acclaimed organizations, the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir, commemorated on Sunday morning the 80th anniversary of its
weekly program, "Music and the Spoken Word." The half-hour program
is the world's longest-running continuous network broadcast.
Among the program's celebrants was President Thomas S. Monson,
president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who
serves also as the choir's adviser.
In remarks during a program after the weekly broadcast, President
Monson said that as he sat in the audience at Red Rocks Amphitheater
near Denver during the choir's final concert on its recent tour, he
offered a silent prayer of gratitude "for this magnificent choir,
for ...