Capitol, Salt Lake City. To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit cspan. Org localcontent. We continue now with our look at the history of Salt Lake City. This is American History tv on cspan3. I would like to welcome you to the tabernacle here on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. This is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir. Some might call it americas choir. The mormon tabernacle choir was firstzed in 1847 when the pioneers came into this valley. It was a small group of people a bowery type building, very rustic, and they asked for a choir to perform, but it was in 1849 that welsh pioneers came to the valley and they saying in fourpart harmony. They saying in wells, and that decided youam young needed to be the nucleus of the great choir, so it really started in 1847 and 1849. They used to sing in a building over on the square that was is a temporary link, but they called it the tabernacle, and that is how the name came, the mormon tabernacle choir. When that was too
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