PIONEER DAY CONCERT

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2009 Last night Judy, Austin, Molly and I went to the Conference Center for the Pioneer Day Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square Concert. It was more a commemoration of the Tabernacle Choir having been on the air for eighty years. The second song they sang was Come, Come, ye Saints one hymn I always bawl through and have done so for as long as I can remember. Ever since my sweet mother got me hooked on genealogy when I was fourteen and having read and reread all my ancestors pioneer hardship stories I have felt a strong kinship to them and in my mind will always have a deep abiding love for the Mormon Pioneers. Things went downhill from there and I cried for an hour and a half. The PIONEER thing and a love of the Lord and the gospel did it last night! I am crying again as we speak. The following is the program: “Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Pioneer Day Commemoration Concert celebrating the 80th anniversary of Music & The Spoken Word. Friday, July 17, 2009 7:30 p.m. Conference Center Mack Wilberg conductor Richard Elliott, Clay Christiansen, Andrew Unsworth organists. Program The Morning Breaks….George Careless arr. By Mack Wilberg Welcome and Prayer Come, Come, Ye Saints….early Latter-day Saint hymn arr. Mack Wilberg Bound for the Promised Land….American folk hymn arr. Mack Wilberg They, the Builders of the Nation….Alfred M. Durham arr. Mack Wilberg Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz Alleluia Fanfare and Praise to the Lord, the Almighty….from Stralsund Gesangbuch, 1665 arr. Mack Wilberg Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing….from JohnWyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, 1813 arr. Mack Wilberg I Feel My Savior’s Love….K. Newell Dayley arr. Sam Cardon Cum Sancto Spiritu from Petite messe solenelle….Cioacchino Rossini I Want Jesus to Walk with Me.…African-American spiritual arr. Moses Hogan Swing Low, Sweet Chariot….African-American spiritual arr. Richard Elliot Rock-a-My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham….African-American spiritual arr. Howard A. Roberts You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel….Richard Rodgers Arr. Arthur Harris Fill the World with Love from Goodbye, Mr. Chips….Leslie Bricuss Arr. Mack Wilberg Battle Hymn of the Republic….William Steffe Arr. Peter J. Wilhousky God Be with You Till We Meet Again….William G. Tomer Arr. Mack Wilberg I LOVE THE PIONEERS!!!!