It was in 1849 that welch pioneers came to the valley and they sang in harmony and welch. They decided you need to be the nucleus. It started in 1849. They used to sing in the tabernacle. When that was too small they started building this particular building which was in the late 1860s. It was completed at the end of the civil war. The tabernacle here has been the home of the choir ever since. As we had voisitors come one of the things they first noticed is the organ. It is right there and has been accompanying since the organ was put in. It has been around even longer. This is older than the temple itself. The oldest thing inside is this organ case. These gold pipes next to me here have looked down on decades and decades of history. So a lot of history in this organ case and in the building. The soupd of the tabernacle organist is really unique. This ceiling does a remarkable ceils of projecting the soupd no the back of the room. It is like a warm bath when you hear this organ play. W
Other earlier american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle here. This was seen as a difficult place to live. And not a desirable patch of land. That was part of the logic for mormons taking it. Brigham young wanted a place that could be isolated from other american settlers so that they wouldnt run into the same kinds of conflicts that they had experienced in the east. That dream was only partially realized because not only does the gold rush bring some 30,000 nonmormons through utah in the first three years of settlement, maybe five years of settlement. The 20,000 or so native americans here, these stories became as difficult as the ones the mormons had experienced before. Misunderstanding. Cultural alienation. Violent conflict and displacement. Only this time native americans are moved out of their traditional homelands. And so it becomes a difficult story to tell. Human beings have been here for a very long time. Provo, when the first angloamerican settlers ar
Organist is really unique. This ceiling does a remarkable ceils of projecting the soupd no the back of the room. It is like a warm bath when you hear this organ play. When you hai sit on this befrmn huge wall of sound going over me and out into the room. I have been here 23 years now and im still thrilled as much as i was the first time i heard them. One great story has to do with helen keller who was here in the early 19 hundreds and spoke at the pulpit behind where im seated here, if you can call it speaking. We know she was deprived of her eyesight and learned to speak if a very guttural voice. She gave a presentation to a packed house. They asked if there was anything she would like. The organist came and played come come thee saints. They placed her hands on the wood of the case and the person said she just wept as she felt the throbbing of the great instrument and the pipes playing the song the pioneers had played. There is something unique about this choir that comes across to a
It was in 1849 that welch pioneers came to the valley and they sang in harmony and welch. They decided you need to be the nucleus. It started in 1849. They used to sing in the tabernacle. When that was too small they started building this particular building which was in the late 1860s. It was completed at the end of the civil war. The tabernacle here has been the home of the choir ever since. As we had voisitors come one of the things they first noticed is the organ. It is right there and has been accompanying since the organ was put in. It has been around even longer. This is older than the temple itself. The oldest thing inside is this organ case. These gold pipes next to me here have looked down on decades and decades of history. So a lot of history in this organ case and in the building. The soupd of the tabernacle organist is really unique. This ceiling does a remarkable ceils of projecting the soupd no the back of the room. It is like a warm bath when you hear this organ play. W