The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is an amateur, 360 piece choir named after the Salt Lake Tabernacle. The choir has performed in the tabernacle for over a hundred years.
The Tabernacle houses an organ consisting of 11,623 pipes.The choir is usually accompanied by it. An orchestra or a cappella singing is used as well.
Prospective singers must be LDS Church members who are eligible for a temple recommend, be between 25 and 55 years of age at the start of choir service, and live within 100 miles of Temple Square.
In 1929, the Choir began its weekly live broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word, on the radio, and in the early 1960s made its way to television. Today this program stands as the longest running continuous network broadcast in America. Original public domain image from Flickr