Mormon Tabernacle Choir Boot Camp0
Mormon Life says: Anyone else think this would be a really great reality show?
Nearly 400 hopeful singers submitted applications for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the 2009 call for new members. Of those who applied, 78 were accepted. The Choir had not auditioned in two years so the group applying and those accepted were both large numbers.
Now, these singers enter an intensive 16-week training period. On Tuesday each week they will sing as members of the Temple Square Chorale which culminates with a concert in April. The Chorale will also feature members of the Choir who joined in 2007. Ryan Murphy, associate director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will conduct the Chorale rehearsal sessions and performances. On Thursdays, they will attend Choir Training School—sort of a graduate course in choral singing. Required attendance is 100% of the Tuesdays and Thursdays for the 16 weeks.
Cherilyn Wirthin, who is in charge of the Choir Training School, explains it’s “boot camp” with an intense schedule but short- lived. The purpose is to get people ready to sing in the Choir. Essentially, the Training School and Chorale provide a “run-up” to full Choir participation and a final check to insure the singers are a good match for the Choir. The goal is to introduce new voices to the choir “in a homogenous way.”
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