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Fox News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
'America's Choir' celebrates 'unprecedented' milestone nearly 100 years after first broadcast
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square performed the 5,000th episode of a long-standing Mormon music program on Sunday, marking a monumental milestone since it began nearly 100 years ago. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported in a statement shared with Fox News Digital that the "Music & the Spoken Word" broadcast was performed at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Over 11,500 people attended. The program began on July 15, 1929, just months before the Great Depression began. The LDS Church said "Music & the Spoken Word" is the longest-running consecutive broadcast of its kind. More than 6 million people listen to the broadcast every week. Choir volunteer Heidi Swinton noted in a release that the program has weathered multiple calamities over the years, including the Great Depression and the COVID-19 pandemic. "[The Choir] can be a voice that says, 'We can do this. We can get through this,'" Swinton said. She added, "Ronald Reagan called it 'America's Choir,' and I think it's because of its longevity, because since the beginning of radio, the Choir has been out there in front heralding the good things that happen and the hard things that happened and saying, 'Lock arms and we'll get through this.'" In the LDS Church statement, 101-year-old Warna Huff said she remembered listening to the first broadcast. "It was something you don't forget," she recalled. "It just makes you feel something that you need. The music's beautiful." Huff, who was five years old in 1929, also said that she watches the program every week. "It just makes you feel good," the worshiper observed. "It just makes you feel something that you need. The music's beautiful." Russell M. Nelson, president of the LDS church, also recalled listening to early broadcasts. "I cannot remember life without 'Music & the Spoken Word,'" the leader recalled. "I was born in 1924 … I can remember, as a little boy, listening to Sunday broadcasts." In a statement, the LDS Church called the performance an "unprecedented achievement [that] underscores the weekly program's enduring legacy and its profound global impact." "Music is the universal language of the Spirit," Nelson said. "Music communicates to the heart and soul of individuals in a way that written words cannot duplicate."
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Hill's Headlines - July 13, 2025
NATIONAL One year since President Trump's assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania ECONOMY The EU is delaying retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, in hopes of reaching a deal by Aug. 1 INTERNATIONAL Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza surpasses 58,000, says health ministry RELIGION Tabernacle Choir to mark 5,000 episodes of 'Music and the Spoken Word' WEATHER Grand Canyon wildfire grows 20-fold over 24 hours as Canadian wildfires smoke blankets U.S. Midwest
The Hill
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hill
Tabernacle Choir to mark 5,000 episodes of ‘Music and the Spoken Word'
The Tabernacle Choir, one of the oldest and largest choral organizations in the world, will broadcast its 5,000th episode of 'Music and the Spoken Word' on Sunday. One of the longest-running broadcast church services, 'Music and the Spoken Word' has aired each week since July 1929 and has been heard by more than 6 million people in 50 countries around the globe on radio, television and online streaming. Sunday's episode will commemorate more than nine decades of music and messages shared with audiences in the United States and beyond, the choir said. Sunday's event will be broadcast from the Conference Center at Temple Square in Salt Lake City and feature a preshow, the 5,000th episode of 'Music and the Spoken Word' and a postshow after the historic program concludes. 'The 5,000th episode of Music & the Spoken Word represents more than longevity and international reach,' said Perry Sook, joint board chair of the National Association of Broadcasters and the chair and CEO of Nexstar Media Group, which is the parent company of The Hill. 'It represents unwavering excellence, a commitment to public service and the enduring power of faith and music to unite us all.' Sunday's 5,000th episode will be broadcast at 11:30 a.m. EDT on the Tabernacle Choir's YouTube channel.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
5000th episode of ‘Music and the Spoken Word' airs Sunday
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square is making history as the 5000th episode of Music and the Spoken Word is set to air this Sunday, July 13. After the first episode aired in 1929, the choir has broadcasted the program every Sunday for nearly a century, making it the longest continuing live network broadcast in history. 'It's really…amazing,' Music and the Spoken Word Host Derrick Porter said. 'Those who came before us, I think they wouldn't even be able to comprehend what's happening now.' As for what's happening now – growth. More than six million people spread across 50 countries currently tune in. Some key members have been around for a large part of it. Choir Director Mack Wilberg has been a part of 1600 broadcasts and witnessed the program's growth firsthand. 'When I became involved in the program in 1999, it was mainly a program that went to the Intermountain West,' he recalled. 'Now, we're millions on a weekly basis.' So what's responsible for that growth? Leaders said Music and the Spoken Word is not a program with the sole purpose to entertain, but rather to inspire. 'I think the basic recipe of the program has remained the same over these many years, and that is to bring hope, peace, and joy to all those who listen,' Wilberg said. Those feelings are something Choir President Michael O. Leavitt hopes people across the world can recognize. 'The power of some quiet reflection and the role of music and producing it,' he said. '[That can cause] sacred feelings that give them a sense of who they are and they're connected in a way that is important to them.' The 5000th episode is scheduled to air Sunday, July 13 at 9:30 a.m. They have a pre-show and post-show planned surrounding the broadcast. They invite all to attend at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Conference Center. Man turns motorcycle passion into cross-country charity ride for Alzheimer's Rubio begins mass firings at State Department: Key takeaways Worker dies from injuries sustained during California farm raid American Fork asks residents to stick to assigned watering days and conserve water West Nile Virus detected in Cache County mosquitoes Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
RNZ News
6 days ago
- General
- RNZ News
Hymns on Sunday, 13 July 2025
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square was founded over a century ago in Utah, USA, and has over 300 members. In this week's programme, you can hear this impressive choir sing the spiritual Who'll be a witness for my Lord , and Emma Lou Thayne's hymn Where can I turn for peace . Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra Photo: LK Artist: Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Words/Music: Traditional Recording: Bonneville 510097 [Lyrics unavailable] Artist: Huddersfield Choral Society Words/Music: Edward Burns/Anon arr William Gardiner Recording: Signum 2006 We have a gospel to proclaim, Good news for all throughout the earth; The gospel of a Saviour's name: We sing his glory, tell his worth. Tell of his birth at Bethlehem, Not in a royal house or hall, But in a stable dark and dim, The Word made flesh, a light for all. Tell of his death at Calvary, Hated by those he came to save; In lonely suff'ring on the cross: For all he loved, his life he gave. Tell of that glorious Easter morn, Empty the tomb, for he was free; He broke the pow'r of death and hell That we might share his victory. Now we rejoice to name him King: Jesus is Lord of all the earth. This gospel-message we proclaim: We sing his glory, tell his worth. Artist: Choir of All Souls, Langham Place Words/Music: Timothy Dudley-Smith/Johann Cruger Recording: Alliance Music 190892 We come as guests invited when Jesus bids us dine, his friends on earth united to share the bread and wine; the bread of life is broken; the wine is freely poured for us, in solemn token of Christ our dying Lord. We eat and drink, receiving from Christ the grace we need, and in our hearts believing on him by faith we feed; with wonder and thanksgiving for love that knows no end, we find in Jesus living our ever-present friend. One bread is ours for sharing, one single fruitful vine, our fellowship declaring renewed in bread and wine: renewed, sustained, and given by token, sign, and word, the pledge and seal of heaven, the love of Christ our Lord. Artist: Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, Michael Stewart (dir), Richard Apperley (organ) Words/Music: Trevor Francis/Thomas Williams Recording: RNZ 2020 O the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free, rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me. Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love; leading onward, leading homeward to my glorious rest above. O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore! How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, nevermore! How He watcheth o'er His loved ones, died to call them all His own; how for them He intercedeth, watcheth o'er them from the throne. Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus! Love of every love the best: vast the ocean of his blessing, sweet the haven of his rest! Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus, very heaven of heavens to me, and it lifts me up to glory, evermore his face to see. Artist: Taize Community Choir Words/Music: Jacques Berthier Recording: Taize 2002 The kingdom of God is justice and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Come, Lord, and open in us the gates of your kingdom. Artist: Choir of the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Michael Stewart (dir), Richard Apperley (organ) Words/Music: Kate Wilkinson/Cyril Barham-Gould Recording: RNZ 2020 May the mind of Christ, my Saviour, live in me from day to day, by His love and pow'r controlling all I do and say. May the Word of God dwell richly in my heart from hour to hour, so that all may see I triumph only through His pow'r. May the peace of God, my Father, rule my life in ev'rything, that I may be calm to comfort sick and sorrowing. May the love of Jesus fill me as the waters fill the sea. Him exalting, self abasing: this is victory. May I run the race before me, strong and brave to face the foe, looking only unto Jesus as I onward go. Artist: The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Words/Music: Emma Lou Thayne/Joleen G Meredith Recording: Bonneville 519602 Where can I turn for peace? Where is my solace When other sources cease to make me whole? When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice, I draw myself apart, Searching my soul? Where, when my aching grows, Where, when I languish, Where, in my need to know, where can I run? Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish? Who, who can understand? He, only One. He answers privately, Reaches my reaching In my Gethsemane, Saviour and Friend. Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching. Constant he is and kind, Love without end. Artist: Choir of Wells Cathedral, Malcolm Archer (dir), Rupert Gough (organ) Words/Music: Edward Plumtre/Basil Harwood Recording: Hyperion 711210 Thy hand, O God, has guided thy flock, from age to age; the wondrous tale is written, full clear, on every page; our fathers owned thy goodness, and we their deeds record; and both of this bear witness: one Church, one faith, one Lord. Thy heralds brought glad tidings to greatest, as to least; they bade men rise, and hasten to share the great King's feast; and this was all their teaching, in every deed and word, to all alike proclaiming one Church, one faith, one Lord. Through many a day of darkness, through many a scene of strife, the faithful few fought bravely, to guard the nation's life. Their Gospel of redemption, sin pardoned, man restored, was all in this enfolded: one Church, one faith, one Lord. Thy mercy will not fail us, nor leave thy work undone; with thy right hand to help us, the victory shall be won; and then, by men and angels, thy name shall be adored, and this shall be their anthem: one Church, one faith, one Lord.
