The world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir has scheduled a concert tour of the United States and Canada during July of 1992.
The tour will commemorate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, said Wendell M. Smoot, choir president.Plans for the two-week, nine-performance tour were formally announced to the 320-voice ensemble during its weekly rehearsal Thursday night by President Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sponsors the choir.
The concert schedule is:
- July 20 - Richmond, Va., the Mosque Theatre
- July 21 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Roy Thomson Hall
- July 22 - Detroit, Mich., the Pavilion at the Meadowbrook Music Festival
- July 23 - Columbus, Ohio, Franklin Country Veterans Memorial
- July 25 - Milwaukee, Wis., with the Milwaukee Symphony, Marcus Amphitheater
- July 27 - Minneapolis-St. Paul, Target Center
- July 28 - Ames, Iowa, Hilton Coliseum on Iowa State University campus
- July 29 - Nauvoo, Ill., outdoor amphitheater adjacent to LDS Visitors Center
- July 30 - Springfield, Ill., Prairie Capital Convention Center
Smoot said the Tabernacle Choir has performed in numerous U.S. cities over the past century, but the 1992 tour will mark the first-ever performances in Springfield, Ames and Nauvoo.
Jerold Ottley is musical director of the choir, known worldwide for its concerts, recordings, television specials, and weekly network radio and television broadcasts from Salt Lake City's Temple Square.
The choir will leave Salt Lake City by chartered plane on July 19. After the Toronto concert, the singers will travel by bus to Detroit, Columbus and Milwaukee, after which they will fly via charter to the other concert locations and return to Salt Lake City on July 30.
The Sunday, July 26, radio and television broadcast of the weekly program, "Music and the Spoken Word," will originate in Milwaukee.