he Mormon Tabernacle Choir will conduct its 2007 Canada?Midwest United States tour from 21 June through 3 July 2007. It will perform concerts in Toronto, Canada; Chautauqua, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. Sixty-five members of the Orchestra at Temple Square will accompany the 360-voice choir on tour.

Music performed on the summer tour will draw from the choir?s extensive repertoire and will include choral masterworks, hymns, spirituals, and folk songs. Craig Jessop, music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, said: ?We look forward to bringing the choir and orchestra to these great music festivals and venues. Our repertoire will include works from the masters of classical composition to famed Broadway tunes, and there should be something to please everyone who attends.? The concert program will also feature selections from the choir?s spring 2007 CD release entitled Showtime! Music from Broadway and Hollywood.

The choir and orchestra will give matinee and evening performances at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on 22 June, followed by matinee and evening performances at the Chautauqua Amphitheater on 23 June. The choir will perform at three prestigious outdoor summer venues beginning with the Blossom Festival in Cleveland on 25 June, followed by the Ravinia Music Festival in Chicago on 27 June, and an appearance at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati with the Cincinnati Pops (Erich Kunzel and Craig Jessop sharing the conducting duties) on 29 June. The tour will conclude with shows at two large Tennessee venues: the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville on 30 June and the FedEx Forum in Memphis on 2 July.

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