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Show Choir By HAROLD Is Big Hit At 3 Concerts LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor The Tabernacle Choir was presented in three concerts early this week before a total estimated audience of 33,000. The 320 singers who made the trip to the Canadian National Exhibit in Toronto. Ontario, were directed by Richard Condie. Tabernacle Alexander Schreiner, Dr. organist, served as accompanist. Elder Richard Evans of the Council of the Twelve who has been closely associated with the weekly nationwide Columbia Broadcasting System broadcasts as producer, announcer, and author of The Spoalso accompanied the Choir ken Word, and served as its commentator. The two concerts in Canadas second largest city woe given as a part of the week-long 2 series if Evening Spectacui lar" in the Exhibition Grandstand. A huge mobile stage, 100 feet wide and 80 feet deep, was rolled in front of the grandstand. From the grandstand the listeners could see not only the Tabernacle Choir singers, handsomely dressed in their concert clothes, but also the brightly lighted Toronto skyline, the lights (and the disturbing noise) of the nearby Midway, and the beautiful Lake Ontario with its many sailboats and lake steamers. On Tuesday a large number of members of the Church who live in Eastern Canada enjoyed their first official Mormon Day at their annual fair, which is reported to be the worlds largest. They were also accorded the opportunity to present a program in the bandstand that attracted a thousand viewers. The presentation was in the form of a talent program, with the various Canadian branches and districts supplying 'their best i t entertainment talents. Included was a Primary Chorus and a Singing Mothers Chorus. In a nearby building, a corps of missionaries under the direction of C. Davey, are conducting a large booth that is attracting from one to two thousand guests each day. When the Tabernacle Choir arrived in Toronto, they were the guests of the Canadian Mission and the Toronto Stake at a banquet in the Toronto Stake Center that had been prepared by the combined Relief black-and-whi- 100-voi- Le-lan- d Societies. At a banquet Tuesday evening in the Royal York Hotel where it was housed, the Tabernacle Choir heard praises to it by Oakah L. Jones, president of the Canadian National Exhibit; L. C. Powell, general manager; and Col. C. O. Hunt, 1,600-roo- Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings from huge movable stage to thrill audience of nearly 30,000 at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. director of concerts. A guest at the concert of the three officials was the U.S. Consul General Alan Morehouse. Among the tributes given was Colonel Hunts: Thrills went up and down my spine and tears wet my eyes during your magnificent concert last (Monday) night. Your communication with the audience was intimate and superb. We are grateful for your being here. In Chicago the Trbernacle Choir attracted the largest audience of the AHA convention, it was reported by convention officials. As they were at the Canadian National Exhibition concerts, the Choir, director, accompanist, and commentator, were accorded enthusiastic standing ovations. The entire tour with its myriad details was under the direction of Isaac M. Stewart, president, and Stanford Darger, general secretary. Richard P. Condie conducts the Tabernacle Choir as they sang Convention of American Hospital Administrators in Chicago. banquet prepared by Canadian Relief Society. at the National Tabernacle Choir during Chicago program. ' WEEK ENDING AUGUST 23, 1969 CtHlRCH- -l V'' ' |