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Show SI TABERNACLE CHOIR CELEBRATES 30 YRON RADIO Thirty years of continuous weekly week-ly radio broadcasting over nationwide nation-wide networks will be completed Sunday morning, July 19, by the world-famed Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir. A special broadcast marking the event will be aired Sunday over the Columbia Broadcasting System, originating with KSL Radio in Salt Lake City at 8:30 a.m. The thirty-year record of broadcasting broad-casting makes the choir's program the oldest continuous network series ser-ies in American radio. The program started July IS, 1929 and has been earned by CBS since 1932. 1 he h;' If-hour program features music by the choir under Director Richard P, Condie, Tabernacle Organists Or-ganists Dr. Alexander Schreiner and Dr. Frank Asper and the timely and uplifting "The Spoken Word" by Richard L. Evans. Music requested by the listening audience will comprise the anniversary anniver-sary broadcast. Thousands of letters let-ters from listeners in all parts of the United States and from abroad have poured in during recent weeks. The program will include an all-time all-time favorite Mormon hymn, "The Morning Breaks, The Shadows Flee," and selections by Ceorge F. Handel, whose choral works are also favorites of listeners. Appropriately, Appro-priately, thus year marks the bicentennial bi-centennial of Handel's death. The choir is widely known for its popular recordings on Columbia Colum-bia records and for concert tours in Europo in 1955 and in Eastern United States in 1958, in addition to its broadcasts. O |
