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The week we moved to Utah, I got an e-mail from my cousin about the upcoming Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert. This is an annual event that has grown in popularity exponentially every year. It is always incredible. I have seen several rebroadcasts that they play on BYUTV during the holiday season and they are so inspirational. They really bring the spirit of the season and the MoTab always takes my breath away.
So the chance to be at the Christmas concert LIVE sounded so incredible! A huge perk to living in Utah. Unfortunately, there are over a million other people who think this would be incredible too. The tickets are so popular, people used to sleep overnight in line to get them. To avoid this extreme, the tickets are now given out using a lottery system. The tickets are free - all you have to do is sign up and cross your fingers. They do 4 performances, but even so - you have to be pretty lucky to "win". I used all my siblings information to increase my chances, but nobody was picked. )o: I was pretty disappointed.
As a consolation prize, the church opens up other sites on Temple Square where you can watch a live broadcast. You have to enter to get tickets for these too and my grandparents scored 4 tickets for a Friday night. They very kindly offered the extra two tickets to Sarah and I! Sarah was so excited because the guest was David Archiletta - and being an American Idol fan, she knew who he was.
Our seats were in the Joseph Smith building theater and we had a FABULOUS time. The concert and program were just beautiful and embraced everything amazing about Christmas time. There was dancing, stirring music, incredible story-telling by Michael York and of course the nativity reading from Luke 2. Whether you are LDS or not (the programs are fitting for any Christian denomination), I'm telling you - this is the most amazing Christmas performance there is and there's a brand new concert with new amazing guests every year. I can't recommend it enough. It just gave me chills.
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1 comment:
That's so awesome that you got to see it almost live! I had several family members with tickets to the conference center that didn't get in because they were not there early enough. I have been having fun catching up with your family too with all your back-blogging. I was afraid you had fallen off the face of the blogging world there for a while! Looks like you guys are really loving being in Utah, but we sure miss you up here! Take care and we'll have to come visit next time we're there!
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