The O.C. Tanner Gift of Music is a series of free concerts presented in Salt Lake City by the Utah Symphony and the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, with soloists, conductors and other choirs as guests. The concerts have been hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) on Temple Square since 1983. The thirtieth anniversary gala concertsJames Taylor Teams Up With The Mormon Tabernacle Choir abcnews.go.com September 8, 2013 were held September 6 and 7, 2013.OC Tanner Gift of Music Utah Symphony September 8, 2013
Origins In the 1970s two neighbors Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner company and Gordon B. Hinckley, a member of the First Presidency of the LDS Church, worked together to foster unity in the growing community of the Wasatch Front. They included the president of the Utah Symphony, Wendell Ashton, and the president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Oakley Evans in these efforts. Their intent was to create a series of free concerts funded by an endowment from Obert and his wife Grace. These concerts would feature the combined talents of the world-famous Choir and the Symphony. Adding famed soloists, conductors and other choirs as guest artists would make these world class concerts.
Gifts Of Music
1983–89
1983: Verdi Requiem Friday, September 16, 1983
The Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor Kristine Ciesinski, soloist Katherine Ciesinski, soloist Arnold Voketaitis, soloist Dana Talley, soloist
1985: Americana Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor and soloist
1987: Mendelssohn Elijah Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Jerold Ottley, conductor Audrey Luna, soloist
1989: operatic and concert selections Friday & Saturday, February 24 and 25, 1989
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Julius Rudel, conductor Kiri Te Kanawa, soloist
1991–99
1991: operatic and concert selections Friday and Saturday, November 8 and 9, 1991
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Joseph Silverstein, conductor Frederica von Stade, soloist
1994: Berlioz Requiem Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23, 1994
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Robert Shaw, conductor Stanford Olsen, soloist
1996: DeMars An American Requiem Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, 1996
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- James DeMars , composer & conductor Audrey Luna, soloist Linda Priebe , soloist Robert Breault, soloist Simon Estes, soloist
1998: an Atlantic bridge Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, 1998
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Craig Jessop, conductor The King's Singers, soloists
1999: Brahms Requiem Saturday, February 13, 1999
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Craig Jessop, conductor Janice Chandler Eteme , soloist Nathan Gunn, soloist
2000–09
2000: Vaughan Williams Hodie Friday & Saturday, November 3 and 4, 2000
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Keith Lockhart, conductor Henriette Schellenberg, soloist Robert Breault, soloist Robert Honeysucker, soloist , guest Temple Square Chorale, guest SUU Concert Choir, guest
2002: Mahler Symphony no. 8 Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2002
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Keith Lockhart, conductor Bridgett Hooks , soloist Indra Thomas, soloist Mary Ellen Callahan, soloist Barbara Rearjck, soloist Rebekah Ambosini, soloist John Daniecki, soloist Clayton Brainerd, soloist Les Young, soloist Utah Symphony Chorus, guest Choristers of the Madeleine Choir School, guest , guest Salt Lake Children's Choir, guest SUU Concert Choir, guest
2005: a Celtic celebration Friday & Saturday, October 21 and 22, 2005
Conference Center Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Craig Jessop & Mack Wilberg, conductors Ronan Tynan, soloist Leahy, soloist Wasatch & District Pipe Band, guests
2008: an American songbook George M. Cohan, Richard Rodgers, John Williams, Woody Guthrie, Irving Berlin and other American composers
Friday & Saturday, September 19 and 20, 2008
Conference Center Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Erich Kunzel, guest conductor Denyce Graves, soloist Brian Stokes Mitchell, soloist
2009: Mahler Symphony no. 2 Friday and Saturday, November 20 and 21, 2009
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Keith Lockhart, conductor Janice Chandler Eteme , soloist Nancy Maultsby, soloist
2011–present
2011: Berlioz Requiem Friday & Saturday, September 16 and 17, 2011
Salt Lake Tabernacle Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Thierry Fischer, conductor
2013: 30th anniversary gala Friday & Saturday, September 6 and 7, 2013
Conference CenterArtist James Taylor to Perform With Tabernacle Choir churchofjesuschrist.org, September 8, 2013 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Utah Symphony --- Mack Wilberg, conductor James Taylor, Special Guest
2019: Golden Spike 150th Anniversary
Friday, May 10th, 2019
Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Utah Symphony Brian Stokes Mitchell, Megan Hilty special guests
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