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Article: Harmonious milestone for Tabernacle Choir
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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With nods from President Bush and LDS President Gordon B.
Hinckley, along with conductors and organists past and present, the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir celebrated and performed its 4,000th
consecutive broadcast on Sunday.
Several thousand people gathered in the Conference Center downtown
for a 30-minute video look at the choir's past, narrated by longtime
CBS newsman Charles Osgood. Television audiences throughout the
Intermountain West also viewed the program Sunday on a televised tape
delay.
Now in its 77th year, "Music and the Spoken Word" is the longest
continuous program in broadcast history, heard every Sunday from "the