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Article: Tabernacle Choir's 'Messiah' in registry
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2005
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A 1959 Mormon Tabernacle Choir album is among 50 "culturally,
historically or aesthetically significant" recordings to be placed in
the National Recording Registry, the Library of Congress announced
this week.
Recordings, which must be at least 10 years old to be included in
the registry, are chosen to represent a broad spectrum of aural
experience, from music and radio broadcasts to speeches and even
environmental sounds, said Karen Fishman, reference librarian in the
recorded sound section of the Library of Congress.
"We have everything from Handel to hip-hop. We try to make sure
each genre is represented," she said in a phone interview.
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