This is a true story about a family at Christmastime—a mother and father who, in the night of their deepest despair, discovered the healing light of hope.
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The Bonner Family has released a smile-inducing new music video for their song “Let’s Light the World.”
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For the December 18 “Light the World” prompt, here are six of our favorite Christmas songs performed by Latter-day Saint artists.
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The Bonner Family has released a new music video for the popular hymn, “How Great Thou Art.”
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The Bonner family was recently featured on “The Chosen” Christmas special. Read about how far they’ve come since the day in 1981 when they took refuge in a Las Vegas casino with $18 to their name.
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Amid big smiles and laughter, Brother Wilcox joined singer Dallyn Bayles in a verse of “High on the Mountain Top.”
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“20 Years of Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir” will start airing next week. Here's where you can watch it:
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The 2022 youth theme “Trust in the Lord” now has a theme song, a new album, and accompanying resources for youth and leaders.
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The pandemic hasn't stopped The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square from again reaching the top of the Billboard charts.
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BYU Noteworthy's new music video, "What Child Is This" has a special addition to the arrangement that is going to give you goosebumps.
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The Church’s youth channel recently released a new album for Christmas 2021 titled “A Savior is Born.”
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The Church’s first European Christmas concert broadcast will feature founding member of Celtic Woman
For the first time, members worldwide are invited to watch a special Christmas concert produced by the Church’s Europe Area.
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Here's some of our favorite Christmas albums from Latter-day Saint artists that you won't get tired of anytime soon!
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In a new music video, the tender connection between the Piano Guys and their daughters is on full display as they perform with their girls and father-daughter duo Mat and Savanna Shaw.
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How has the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square put on magical Christmas concerts for 20 years? Conductors Mack Wilberg and Ryan Murphy share their thoughts.
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Have you ever listened to a song over and over, and one day you suddenly realize that the words you always sing at the top of your lungs are not the right ones? Primary children sure have! Check out some of the funniest misheard Primary song lyrics.
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The first song that members of the Tabernacle Choir sang at Tuesday night‘s rehearsal was “Come, Ye Children of the Lord”—an appropriate choice after 19 months apart.
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On September 17, the 2021 Church Music Festival annual concert was live-streamed and is now available for on-demand viewing.
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Fill your home with uplifting music the whole family will enjoy! You're likely to recognize a few favorite artists and we hope you'll enjoy some new ones as well.
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Ben and Chad Truman have grown up around music. Their father, Dan Truman, was the keyboard and piano player for country band Diamond Rio, which is famous for hit songs like “Meet in the Middle,” “Beautiful Mess,” and “One More Day.”
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The Bonner Family released a new music video on February 26. Their original song “You’ve Got Soul,” lives up to its name—between the rhythm, tempo, bass, and a feel-good vibe, it has plenty of soul to get you grooving.
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Here is what some famous guest artists had to say about their experience performing with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square at Christmastime.
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In 2018, Church members around the world answered a call to submit original hymns and children’s songs for a revision to Hymns and the Children’s Songbook.
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Heather Parker had an entire album to record, but all the studios were closed.
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If you’ve served a mission in the last seven years, chances are that the Nashville Tribute Band’s album The Work became a part of your mission experience.
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The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square has made accessing gospel music even easier. A free mobile app, simply called The Tabernacle Choir, was just refreshed to provide greater access to uplifting content.
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A group of musicians, including several Latter-day Saints, recently gathered to discuss what they could do to raise awareness about human trafficking. Together, they concluded one way they could help was use their musical talents to recreate a version of Lauren Daigle’s powerful song “Rescue.”
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Some Latter-day Saint artists recently teamed up to perform a cover of country singer Thomas Rhett's new song, “Be A Light.”
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The hymn “Praise to the Man” by pioneer William W. Phelps is well known for its rousing melody to the folk song “Scotland the Brave.” But did you know that the tune wasn’t what the composer originally intended?
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Editor's note: Due to COVID-19, this event has been rescheduled for June 4.
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*This story originally appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of LDS Living.
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George Frideric Handel’s famous oratorio Messiah was first performed in 1742 and has been performed by The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square every two years in the Tabernacle. The concert is also streamed live over the internet to audiences around the globe.
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In a new video released by Oxford University Press, Mack Wilberg, director of the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, explains the inspiration behind his 2018 piece, "A Cloud of Witnesses."
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BYU Vocal Point added an a capella take to the traditional hymn, "Be Thou My Vision," in a video released Friday.
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Dan Truman and Jason Deere aren’t your typical Nashville-based singer-songwriters. They founded an inspirational hit band that’s captured the attention of the Christian world with its tributes to the Bible, missionary work, Jesus Christ, and more. We recently asked them about their new album and what they love about music.
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1. What is a hobby most people don’t know you have?
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From the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square to Calee Reed to the Bonner Family, there are lots of great Latter-day Saint artists who have recently released some great new albums. Take our quiz to find out which new album you might enjoy listening to!
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Paul Cardall, a well-known Latter-day Saint pianist, became the first Latter-day Saint to win an award at the Gospel Music Association’s 50th Annual Dove Awards, held this week. He received the Instrumental Album of the Year award for his album Christmas, which had already landed a spot on 9 Billboard Charts including no. 1 New Age Album and no. 4 Classical Album.
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This September has seen countless Latter-day Saint artists topping Billboard charts. And now the success has reached a new peak.
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From a young age, Jenny Oaks Baker’s parents instilled in her a love of music and faith—a faith that has become the central force in her life.
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Latter-day Saint internationally renowned pianist Paul Cardall doesn't just bring beloved classical hymns to the Latter-day Saint population but to the rest of the Christian world, too. Just recently he was nominated by the Gospel Music Association for the 50th Annual Dove Awards’ Instrumental Album of the Yearfor his album Christmas. The Dove Awards, which celebrate Christian and gospel music, will be held this year on October 15 in Nashville, Tennessee. The album released last year and hit no. 1 for New Age Album and no. 4 for Classical Album on the Billboard charts.
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Sisters Vaofua Ka'ili and Kaylie Bacon came up with a creative way to share their love of the gospel of Jesus Christ—through rap. In a recent Facebook post, Sister Ka'ili wrote:
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This article previously ran on LDS Living in June 2016.
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As part of a family reunion in Missouri, Eki Taula and Joseph Fitua found themselves poised and ready for the final moments of an intense battle that would test their physicality and reflexes. It was the final, hard-won round of what had been an epic match up, and the two prepared to duke it out in the gym of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malik gets into an accident during a worldwide blackout. He wakes up the next morning to find the world exactly the same, with one exception: The Beatles never existed.
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With the recent release of the movie Yesterday in theaters across the nation, The Piano Guys have decided to take their own twist on this iconic Beatles song. "This poignant timeless Beatles melody has always been a favorite of ours," they posted on YouTube. "With this arrangement, we attempted to portray the idea of someone breaking free of melancholy with fond reminiscence of happier times."
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This poll was published on LDS Living in 2011 and on June 28, 2016.
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Although Nathan Pacheco has performed a variety of projects throughout his vocal career, his latest album released, “My Prayer,” has brought him “a little closer to heaven” than he was before.
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It's not often you see the presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hitting the no. 1 spot on a Billboard chart. But Bishop Gérald Caussé and Nicolas Giusti just took that acclaimed spot on the classical charts with their album Joyful.
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Carnegie Hall: It’s a hallowed name among musicians and stands among the preeminent performing arenas in the world.
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With Mother's Day approaching, GENTRI released a cover mashup of the songs "You Say" and "Wind Beneath My Wings," featuring Ryan Innes, Yahosh and O/B/A Bonner, and EJ Michels.
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Celebrated opera soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick not only stunned audiences with her awe-inspiring voice, she also motivated thousands to live truer, fuller, more intentional lives. On April 24, Tillemann-Dick passed away at 35 years old. On her Facebook page, her loved ones posted:
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Mary Hoskins and her brother Jonah Hoskins are two rising stars in the opera business. According to Church News, the two Latter-day Saints have competed in or will compete in the most elite opera singing competitions in the U.S. That's why it is so strange the two would decide to take a break from their careers to serve missions, but that sacrifice doesn't seem to have slowed them down.
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If you are looking for some uplifting and stunning music, check out these new a cappella songs by BYU's Noteworthy and UVU's VoiceLine that were filmed with the gorgeous backdrop of southern Utah wilderness.
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Conference is around the corner—and so's the chance to listen to the Tabernacle Choir and sing some of our favorite songs. Which hymns might we hear or sing this year? Turns out that some are more popular than others! Check out what we found by combing through the last 21 years of hymns sung in general conference:
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You know when pop icon Katy Perry tells you, “You could win this whole thing,” you’ve had a great American Idol audition.
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In a recent Facebook Live video, LDS Living had the opportunity to sit down with Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square director, Mack Wilberg, and assistant director, Ryan Murphy, and ask them some questions our readers have always wanted to know.
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TheDeseret News recent featured opera singer Celena Shafer—her career, her life of faith, and her role as a mother. In the article by Lottie Peterson Johnson, the Deseret News shared the moment when Lottie realized her most important upcoming role would be that of a mother.
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As Latter-day Saints, we understand that modesty encompasses much more than what we wear. It is a way of being. It is a way of understanding our potential as children of Heavenly Parents in everyday moments. It is about taking care of the divine and heavenly gifts we receive. It is a way of life.
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Tuesday night’s Kelly Clarkson tour stop in Salt Lake City included a special guest appearance by the LeBarons, a Latter-day Saint family that went viral last April after posting a YouTube video performance of “One Day More” from Les Miserables they recorded as a Mother’s Day gift for their mother, Denise. Their original video has now been viewed over 11 million times.
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