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In a unique Easter television special, the Tabernacle Choir is teaming with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and a renowned operatic soprano.
"The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: an Easter Gift of Music" will be presented over the Public Broadcasting System in April. It was produced by KUED, a PBS affiliate in Salt Lake City, which will broadcast the program at 8:30 p.m. MST April 13, and again at 8 p.m. April 15.Viewers outside of the KUED viewing area should check local televison listings to find out when the program will be aired.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, an international soprano, is the featured soloist on the program, which includes popular and classical favorites. Julius Rudel conducts the symphony.
The program was videotaped during a live concert in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. London Decca Records released a recording of the concert last Christmas.
The hour-long special, which features select pieces from the concert, will be offered to PBS stations each Easter through 1993.
Selections include Gounod's "O Divine Redeemer," the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria," the Hallelujah Chorus from Beethoven's "Mount of Olives," the overture to Verdi's "LaForza del Destino," and the Easter Hymn from "Cavaleria Rusticana" by Mascagni. Also featured are Rodgers' and Hammerstein's "Climb Every Mountain" and "You'll Never Walk Alone," the Pilgrim's Chorus from Wagner's "Tannhauser," Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Franck's "Psalm 150," and Sir Henry Bishop's "Home, Sweet Home."
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has been a leading star of Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera.
The Utah Symphony Orchestra, designated as one of the nation's major orchestras by the American Symphony Orchestra League, gives some 250 performances annually throughout Utah and the West.
Guest conductor Julius Rudel is best known as head of the New York City Opera from 1956 to 1978.
