American Choral Directors Association
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Event
- Title:
- Gloria
- When:
- Friday, December 17 - 2010 - Saturday, December 18 - 2010 19.30
- Where:
- Provo Tabernacle - Provo
- Category:
- Upcoming Concerts
Description
GLORIA! A New Holiday Tradition - FREE Admission This Year!
An oratorio by Lex de Azevedo made history with its debut in 1999 at Jerusalem's Citadel, known as "The Tower of David", near the Jaffa Gate - the historic entrance to the Old City. The performance was presented by de Azevedo's premiere choir with acclaimed tenor George Dyer as Gabriel and Broadway singer/actress Christeena Michelle Riggs as Mary. The work was recorded and viewed nationally on PBS.
Now you can experience the majesty and glory of the greatest miracle of birth and hope - right here in Utah. Listen as the soloists bring to life that miraculous event with Lex at the piano. Join us in a new experience as we film this glorious work for television at the Provo Tabernacle.
Every word comes from the King James version of the Bible. Lex explains that this is not about the composer or the music. It is about the message, about the greatest event in Christian history, about the story that children hear from their grandparents and pass on to their own grandchildren in eternal circles of love.
George Dyer as Gabriel with Melinda Lockwood DeBirk as Mary
Gregory Pearson as Isaiah & Zacharias and Catherine Stambaugh as The Narrator
Composer Lex de Azevedo at the piano with Dr. Sephen Schank directing
the Millennium Concert Choir, the Salt Lake Institute Singers and Latter-Day Celebration
Please, no children under age 8. Admission is FREE.
Venue
- Venue:
- Provo Tabernacle
- Street:
- 100 S. Univeristy Ave.
- ZIP:
- 84601
- City:
- Provo
- State:
- UT
Description
In Thomas Bullock’s notes, now part of the Journal History of the Church, for 19 September 1849, one reads that on Monday, 17 September 1849, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards [the then presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], and others
“rode out from Fort Utah in three carriages, accompanied by five men on horseback, to look out a location for a town.
“They found a very eligible place, about two miles southeast of the Fort, where it was decided to build a city a mile square, to be laid off in blocks of four acres each, divided into eight lots of half an acre each, reserving the center block of four acres for a chapel and schoolhouses, the streets to be five rods wide...”
By reason of its being about “two miles southeast” of the presumed location of Fort Utah, it would appear that the present location of the Tabernacle was the “center block.”
However, it was at the present location of Pioneer Park, what was then called the “Public Square”, at the present-day address of 500 West and Center Street, that ground was dedicated and broken for the first Provo meeting house under the direction of Apostle George A. Smith, then acting president of the Provo Stake. Later, after the foundations had already been laid, work on it was abandoned on advice from Brigham Young.
“rode out from Fort Utah in three carriages, accompanied by five men on horseback, to look out a location for a town.
“They found a very eligible place, about two miles southeast of the Fort, where it was decided to build a city a mile square, to be laid off in blocks of four acres each, divided into eight lots of half an acre each, reserving the center block of four acres for a chapel and schoolhouses, the streets to be five rods wide...”
By reason of its being about “two miles southeast” of the presumed location of Fort Utah, it would appear that the present location of the Tabernacle was the “center block.”
However, it was at the present location of Pioneer Park, what was then called the “Public Square”, at the present-day address of 500 West and Center Street, that ground was dedicated and broken for the first Provo meeting house under the direction of Apostle George A. Smith, then acting president of the Provo Stake. Later, after the foundations had already been laid, work on it was abandoned on advice from Brigham Young.
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