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The Mormon Tablernacle Choir, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2009

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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Temple Square Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, in April 2009. This spring update to Grove Music Online includes more than 50 new articles on choral music from the forthcoming second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, including “Choral music,” “Show choir,” and “Choral society.”

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