Choir, Cincinnati Pops perform
Sold-out program with Tabernacle singers a success
The program was a crowd pleaser, with Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel sharing directing of the choir and pops orchestra with Craig Jessop and Mack Wilberg at Riverbend Music Center Friday evening.
Kunzel told the Deseret Morning News that while his orchestra and the Tabernacle Choir had made a recording together — with the Cincinnati symphony recording in Ohio and the choir overdubbing in Utah — the first time he had heard the choir in person was when he stood before the group on the conductor's podium during the rehearsal Friday afternoon.
"It was overpowering," he said of the experience. "I've never conducted anything this beautiful. It was unbelievable, that sound. It was such a joy."
He called the Mormon Tabernacle Choir "the most magnificent choir in all the world."
He said that the fact that the concert was "completely sold out to the rafters is a testament to their fame, their beauty, their sound, their history."
Estimates put attendance at the Cincinnati concert at more than 10,000.
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