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* AntiChristmasSong: Deborah Voight sings "The 12 Days After Christmas", which has the "true love" disposing of all the gifts she was given each day ([[YourCheatingHeart exept one of the drummers]]).
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* AntiChristmasSong: Deborah Voight sings "The 12 Days After Christmas", which has the "true love" disposing of all the gifts she was given each day ([[YourCheatingHeart exept (except one of the drummers]]).drummers).
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Charles Dickens over the city to let hem see things as they truly are, he looks and sees houses, hundreds of houses, filled with people...buying books!
-->'''Ghost of Christmas Present'': No, it's not about books!
-->'''Ghost of Christmas Present'': No, it's not about books!
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Charles Dickens over the city to let hem him see things as they truly are, he looks and sees houses, hundreds of houses, filled with people...buying books!
-->'''Ghost of ChristmasPresent'': Present''': No, it's not about books!
-->'''Ghost of Christmas
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** "It is Well With My Soul" deals with the writer of that song and the tragedies his family experienced, most notably the loss of all four of his daughters during the sinking of the SS ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ville_du_Havre Ville du Havre]]''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few concerts are fairly spartan in setup snd lack many of the elements that are introduced in later years. Add to that the editing is more obvious and they have a rather different feel.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few concerts are fairly spartan in setup snd lack many of the elements that are introduced in later years. Add to that the editing is more obvious and they have a rather different feel.
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** "It is Well With My Soul" deals with the writer of that song and the tragedies his family experienced, most notably the loss of all four of his daughters during the sinking of the SS ''[https://en.''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ville_du_Havre Ville du Havre]]''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few concerts are fairly spartan in setupsnd and lack many of the elements that are introduced in later years. Add to that In addition the editing is more obvious and they have a rather different feel.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few concerts are fairly spartan in setup
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* FailedASpotCheck: In "Keep Christmas With You", Big Bird strolls out to wish Mack "good luck" before the concert, not noticing the already full to capacity auditorium.
* GoodSamaritan: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when she tookn a shortcut home from school one day she got lost until a kind old woman took her by the hand and led her right to her door. This serves as an intruduction to "Angels Among Us".
* GoodSamaritan: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when she tookn a shortcut home from school one day she got lost until a kind old woman took her by the hand and led her right to her door. This serves as an intruduction to "Angels Among Us".
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* FailedASpotCheck: In "Keep Christmas With You", Big Bird strolls out to wish Mack "good luck" before the concert, not noticing the already full to capacity auditorium. Later, Grover is trying to figure out why he can't get an image on his monitor, only for Cookie Monster to point out it's a microwave.
* GoodSamaritan: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when shetookn took a shortcut home from school one day she got lost until a kind old woman took her by the hand and led her right to her door. This serves as an intruduction introduction to "Angels Among Us".
* GoodSamaritan: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when she
* OminousPipeOrgan: The organ segment in "Keep Christmas With You" has Richard Elliot performing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" with (who else) Count von Count narrating. When they get to day eleven, instead of recorders or clarinets they decide it means the organ pipes and begin a rendition of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" in a manner that might make one think it's actually Halloween instead of Christmas.
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* OminousPipeOrgan: The organ segment in "Keep Christmas With You" has Richard Elliot performing "The Twlnve Days of Christmas" with (who else) Count von Count narrating. When they get to day eleven, instead of recorders or clarinets they decide it means the organ pipes and begin a redition of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" in a manner that might make one think it's actually Halloween instead of Christams.
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Every year at Christmas time, the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (formerly the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) with the Orchestra and Bells at Temple Square invite some friends over for an evening of music, spoken word and perhaps a few surprises along the way.
While the choir has had Christmas programs of various sorts through the years, the current form came about in the year 2000 with special guest Music/GladysKnight. The following year, with Angela Landsbury, was the first to be recorded. It was also the first to be performed in the newly-built Conference Center and could take advantage of its 21,000 seating capacity and state of the art facilites. Each year since, [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic with the exception of 2020]], there has been a new concert, each with its own guest, its own theme and usually a special narration.
The concerts themselves take place over a three day period, from Thursday to Saturday, with one additional session strictly for recording and the guests usually sticking around for the Choir's Sunday morning ''Music and the Spoken Word'' broadcast. The video will be edited using footage from the concerts and the recording session and then released for purchase the following year as well as a broadcast on Creator/{{PBS}}.
[[folder:Concerts, guests and the years they appeared]]
* 2001: "The Joy of Christmas"; Creator/AngelaLansbury
* 2002: "Silent Night, Holy Night"; Creator/WalterCronkite
* 2003: "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Vol. I"; Frederica von Stade and Music/BrynTerfel
* 2004: "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Vol. II"; Creator/AudraMcDonald and Creator/PeterGraves
* 2005: "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Vol. III"; Renee Fleming and Creator/ClaireBloom
* 2006: "Spirit of the Season"; Sissel Kyrkjebø
* 2007: "Rejoice and Be Merry"; The King's Singers
* 2008: "Ring Christmas Bells"; Creator/BrianStokesMitchell and Creator/EdwardHerrmann
* 2009: "Most Wonderful Time of the Year"; Natalie Cole and David [=McCullough=]
* 2010: "Glad Christmas Tidings"; Music/DavidArchuleta and Creator/MichaelYork
* 2011: "Once Upon a Christmas"; Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Nathan Gunn
* 2012: "Home for the Holidays"; Alfie Boe and Creator/TomBrokaw
* 2013: "Let the Season In"; Deborah Voigt and Creator/JohnRhysDavies
* 2014: "Keep Christmas With You"; Creator/SantinoFontana and the muppets of ''Series/SesameStreet''
* 2015: "Hallelujah!"; Laura Osnes and Creator/MartinJarvis
* 2016: "Come Little Children"; Rolando Villazón
* 2017: "A Merry Little Christmas"; Creator/SuttonFoster and Hugh Bonneville
* 2018: "Angels Among Us"; Creator/KristinChenoweth
* 2019: "Christmas Day in the Morning"; Creator/KelliOHara and Creator/RichardThomas
* 2020: No concert, but the Choir produced a special to mark [[MilestoneCelebration 20 years of the concert]]
* 2021: "O Holy Night"; Creator/MeganHilty and Creator/NealMcDonough
* 2022: "Light the World"; Creator/LeaSalonga and Creator/DavidSuchet
[[/folder]]
The format is unique to each concert, but elements usually include:
* A processional
* A selection of traditional songs or other staples
* The guest star will perform several numbers, usually including a SignatureSong or two, whether related to Christmas or not
* The second guest (if there is one) will present a Christmas-related story with the Choir providing musical accompanyment
* An organ solo by lead organist Richard Elliot
* An orchestral piece
* A dance or ballet performance (usually provided by the University of Utah or Brigham Young University dance departments)
* The concert will conclude with a reading of [[Literature/TheFourGospels the second chapter of Luke]] and the Choir singing "Angels From the Realms of Glory".
!!Examples
* AntiChristmasSong: Deborah Voight sings "The 12 Days After Christmas", which has the "true love" disposing of all the gifts she was given each day ([[YourCheatingHeart exept one of the drummers]]).
* AudienceParticipation: To varying degrees depending on the year and the guests. Special mention goes to Kristin Chenoweth who is introduced not by walking on stage but as she strolls around the auditorium greetings audience members as she goes.
** The 2017 and 2018 concerts each had a sing-along number.
** The concerts traditionally conclude with the choir and audience joining in an encore of "Angels From the Realms of Glory".
* AvianFlute: "The Friendly Beasts" (arr. Mack Wilberg) has a chirping piccolo after the verse about the "dove from the rafters high".
* BrickJoke: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when she was a kid she was part of a bell choir and really wanted to use one of the big bells (which were almost as big as she was at the time) but she kept getting stuck with the smallest bells. Later, while Richard Elliot is performing a rendition of "Carol of the Bells" with members of the bell choir, Kristin reappears with one of those large bells she always wanted to use.
* ChristmasSongs: This goes without saying, though a few non-Christmas songs do work their way in as well.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Charles Dickens over the city to let hem see things as they truly are, he looks and sees houses, hundreds of houses, filled with people...buying books!
-->'''Ghost of Christmas Present'': No, it's not about books!
* DeathOfAChild:
** "A Christmas Bell For Anya" ends with eight-year-old Anya dying when a mob/army roaming turn-of-the-century UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia storms through her village.
** "It is Well With My Soul" deals with the writer of that song and the tragedies his family experienced, most notably the loss of all four of his daughters during the sinking of the SS ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ville_du_Havre Ville du Havre]]''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few concerts are fairly spartan in setup snd lack many of the elements that are introduced in later years. Add to that the editing is more obvious and they have a rather different feel.
** The Christmas story in Luke 2 is usually read up to verse 14 ("Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men") which leads into "Angels From the Realms of Glory", but the one read by Angela Landsbury went up to verse 19 ("But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart") and then had a short narration before the final number.
* EtherealChoir: The 2006 concert has five ballet dancers performing while the choir sings Eric Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque".
* FailedASpotCheck: In "Keep Christmas With You", Big Bird strolls out to wish Mack "good luck" before the concert, not noticing the already full to capacity auditorium.
* GoodSamaritan: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when she tookn a shortcut home from school one day she got lost until a kind old woman took her by the hand and led her right to her door. This serves as an intruduction to "Angels Among Us".
* HolidayCeasefire: The Walter Cronkite concert had him narrating the story of the most famous one, the 1914 Christmas truce during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* HolyPipeOrgan: Yes, it is an organ and it is in a religious building, but there are instances where they specifically invoke this.
** "American Christmas Memories" portrays the Christmas church service Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt spent together in the dark days of December 1941 with the choir singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem", which Churchill had never heard before, with just the organ.
** "Sing Choirs of Angels" has the choir singing "Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah" accompanied mainly by organ as a representative of the hymns brought by Welsh pioneers to Utah.
* LargeHam: Some guests just decide they want to have some fun and put on a show for all they're worth.
** Bryn Terfel came with the flag of Wales sewn into the inside of his coat. After showing the audience, he turned to show the choir and orchestra.
** Brian Stokes Mitchell half-acts out a lot of his songs, especially "The Friendly Beasts" where he sings with different voices for the different animals, even moving his jaw like a cow chewing its cud during that verse.
** John Rhys-Davies really gets into his role as the Ghost of Christmas Present. Especially when they start flying. "Wheeee!"
** Kristin Chenoweth hams her way through her entire concert, with a few instances where she's more serious. Otherwise she's posing dramatically as she sings, dancing around the set and bantering with Mack and the other performers.
** During the sing-along in the 2017 concert, a shot focuses on a group of kids who start hamming it up when they see the camera on them.
* LuminescentBlush: Kristin Chenoweth says it's one of her goals to get Mack to blush. She succeeds; his entire face turns bright red.
* SerialEscalation: From relatively straight forward concerts to full-on productions as time went on.
* SongOfPrayer: Naturally a few of the carols and hymns fall into this category, but Alfie Boe also sang "Bring Him Home" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''. In the backstage interview he notes that the cue in the play calls it "The Prayer", which is how he approaches it during performances.
* OminousPipeOrgan: The organ segment in "Keep Christmas With You" has Richard Elliot performing "The Twlnve Days of Christmas" with (who else) Count von Count narrating. When they get to day eleven, instead of recorders or clarinets they decide it means the organ pipes and begin a redition of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" in a manner that might make one think it's actually Halloween instead of Christams.
* SpecialGuest: One of the main draws of the concerts, a new guest(s) each year.
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: In a vein similar to ''Film/TheManWhoInventedChristmas'', John Rhys-Davies' narration portrays Creator/CharlesDickens in the role of Scrooge while writing that very story.
While the choir has had Christmas programs of various sorts through the years, the current form came about in the year 2000 with special guest Music/GladysKnight. The following year, with Angela Landsbury, was the first to be recorded. It was also the first to be performed in the newly-built Conference Center and could take advantage of its 21,000 seating capacity and state of the art facilites. Each year since, [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic with the exception of 2020]], there has been a new concert, each with its own guest, its own theme and usually a special narration.
The concerts themselves take place over a three day period, from Thursday to Saturday, with one additional session strictly for recording and the guests usually sticking around for the Choir's Sunday morning ''Music and the Spoken Word'' broadcast. The video will be edited using footage from the concerts and the recording session and then released for purchase the following year as well as a broadcast on Creator/{{PBS}}.
[[folder:Concerts, guests and the years they appeared]]
* 2001: "The Joy of Christmas"; Creator/AngelaLansbury
* 2002: "Silent Night, Holy Night"; Creator/WalterCronkite
* 2003: "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Vol. I"; Frederica von Stade and Music/BrynTerfel
* 2004: "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Vol. II"; Creator/AudraMcDonald and Creator/PeterGraves
* 2005: "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Vol. III"; Renee Fleming and Creator/ClaireBloom
* 2006: "Spirit of the Season"; Sissel Kyrkjebø
* 2007: "Rejoice and Be Merry"; The King's Singers
* 2008: "Ring Christmas Bells"; Creator/BrianStokesMitchell and Creator/EdwardHerrmann
* 2009: "Most Wonderful Time of the Year"; Natalie Cole and David [=McCullough=]
* 2010: "Glad Christmas Tidings"; Music/DavidArchuleta and Creator/MichaelYork
* 2011: "Once Upon a Christmas"; Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Nathan Gunn
* 2012: "Home for the Holidays"; Alfie Boe and Creator/TomBrokaw
* 2013: "Let the Season In"; Deborah Voigt and Creator/JohnRhysDavies
* 2014: "Keep Christmas With You"; Creator/SantinoFontana and the muppets of ''Series/SesameStreet''
* 2015: "Hallelujah!"; Laura Osnes and Creator/MartinJarvis
* 2016: "Come Little Children"; Rolando Villazón
* 2017: "A Merry Little Christmas"; Creator/SuttonFoster and Hugh Bonneville
* 2018: "Angels Among Us"; Creator/KristinChenoweth
* 2019: "Christmas Day in the Morning"; Creator/KelliOHara and Creator/RichardThomas
* 2020: No concert, but the Choir produced a special to mark [[MilestoneCelebration 20 years of the concert]]
* 2021: "O Holy Night"; Creator/MeganHilty and Creator/NealMcDonough
* 2022: "Light the World"; Creator/LeaSalonga and Creator/DavidSuchet
[[/folder]]
The format is unique to each concert, but elements usually include:
* A processional
* A selection of traditional songs or other staples
* The guest star will perform several numbers, usually including a SignatureSong or two, whether related to Christmas or not
* The second guest (if there is one) will present a Christmas-related story with the Choir providing musical accompanyment
* An organ solo by lead organist Richard Elliot
* An orchestral piece
* A dance or ballet performance (usually provided by the University of Utah or Brigham Young University dance departments)
* The concert will conclude with a reading of [[Literature/TheFourGospels the second chapter of Luke]] and the Choir singing "Angels From the Realms of Glory".
!!Examples
* AntiChristmasSong: Deborah Voight sings "The 12 Days After Christmas", which has the "true love" disposing of all the gifts she was given each day ([[YourCheatingHeart exept one of the drummers]]).
* AudienceParticipation: To varying degrees depending on the year and the guests. Special mention goes to Kristin Chenoweth who is introduced not by walking on stage but as she strolls around the auditorium greetings audience members as she goes.
** The 2017 and 2018 concerts each had a sing-along number.
** The concerts traditionally conclude with the choir and audience joining in an encore of "Angels From the Realms of Glory".
* AvianFlute: "The Friendly Beasts" (arr. Mack Wilberg) has a chirping piccolo after the verse about the "dove from the rafters high".
* BrickJoke: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when she was a kid she was part of a bell choir and really wanted to use one of the big bells (which were almost as big as she was at the time) but she kept getting stuck with the smallest bells. Later, while Richard Elliot is performing a rendition of "Carol of the Bells" with members of the bell choir, Kristin reappears with one of those large bells she always wanted to use.
* ChristmasSongs: This goes without saying, though a few non-Christmas songs do work their way in as well.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Charles Dickens over the city to let hem see things as they truly are, he looks and sees houses, hundreds of houses, filled with people...buying books!
-->'''Ghost of Christmas Present'': No, it's not about books!
* DeathOfAChild:
** "A Christmas Bell For Anya" ends with eight-year-old Anya dying when a mob/army roaming turn-of-the-century UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia storms through her village.
** "It is Well With My Soul" deals with the writer of that song and the tragedies his family experienced, most notably the loss of all four of his daughters during the sinking of the SS ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ville_du_Havre Ville du Havre]]''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few concerts are fairly spartan in setup snd lack many of the elements that are introduced in later years. Add to that the editing is more obvious and they have a rather different feel.
** The Christmas story in Luke 2 is usually read up to verse 14 ("Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men") which leads into "Angels From the Realms of Glory", but the one read by Angela Landsbury went up to verse 19 ("But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart") and then had a short narration before the final number.
* EtherealChoir: The 2006 concert has five ballet dancers performing while the choir sings Eric Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque".
* FailedASpotCheck: In "Keep Christmas With You", Big Bird strolls out to wish Mack "good luck" before the concert, not noticing the already full to capacity auditorium.
* GoodSamaritan: Kristin Chenoweth tells a story about how when she tookn a shortcut home from school one day she got lost until a kind old woman took her by the hand and led her right to her door. This serves as an intruduction to "Angels Among Us".
* HolidayCeasefire: The Walter Cronkite concert had him narrating the story of the most famous one, the 1914 Christmas truce during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* HolyPipeOrgan: Yes, it is an organ and it is in a religious building, but there are instances where they specifically invoke this.
** "American Christmas Memories" portrays the Christmas church service Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt spent together in the dark days of December 1941 with the choir singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem", which Churchill had never heard before, with just the organ.
** "Sing Choirs of Angels" has the choir singing "Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah" accompanied mainly by organ as a representative of the hymns brought by Welsh pioneers to Utah.
* LargeHam: Some guests just decide they want to have some fun and put on a show for all they're worth.
** Bryn Terfel came with the flag of Wales sewn into the inside of his coat. After showing the audience, he turned to show the choir and orchestra.
** Brian Stokes Mitchell half-acts out a lot of his songs, especially "The Friendly Beasts" where he sings with different voices for the different animals, even moving his jaw like a cow chewing its cud during that verse.
** John Rhys-Davies really gets into his role as the Ghost of Christmas Present. Especially when they start flying. "Wheeee!"
** Kristin Chenoweth hams her way through her entire concert, with a few instances where she's more serious. Otherwise she's posing dramatically as she sings, dancing around the set and bantering with Mack and the other performers.
** During the sing-along in the 2017 concert, a shot focuses on a group of kids who start hamming it up when they see the camera on them.
* LuminescentBlush: Kristin Chenoweth says it's one of her goals to get Mack to blush. She succeeds; his entire face turns bright red.
* SerialEscalation: From relatively straight forward concerts to full-on productions as time went on.
* SongOfPrayer: Naturally a few of the carols and hymns fall into this category, but Alfie Boe also sang "Bring Him Home" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''. In the backstage interview he notes that the cue in the play calls it "The Prayer", which is how he approaches it during performances.
* OminousPipeOrgan: The organ segment in "Keep Christmas With You" has Richard Elliot performing "The Twlnve Days of Christmas" with (who else) Count von Count narrating. When they get to day eleven, instead of recorders or clarinets they decide it means the organ pipes and begin a redition of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" in a manner that might make one think it's actually Halloween instead of Christams.
* SpecialGuest: One of the main draws of the concerts, a new guest(s) each year.
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: In a vein similar to ''Film/TheManWhoInventedChristmas'', John Rhys-Davies' narration portrays Creator/CharlesDickens in the role of Scrooge while writing that very story.
