Mormon Tabernacle Choir Announces 2013 Tour

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Announces 2013 Tour

Choir to Perform in Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and Minneapolis

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square will visit six cities in America's heartland next summer -- their first visit to the upper Midwest since 2009. The tour will include stops in Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and Minneapolis from June 12 through June 20, 2013 and will feature the 360-voice world-renowned choir and 65 members of the Orchestra at Temple Square.

"The Choir performs before a live audience every week for its Music and the Spoken Word broadcast," says Ron Jarrett, president of the Choir. "But there is nothing quite like hearing the Choir live in concert. We love going on the road to connect with our audiences in the Midwest who will experience the pure joy music can bring to the hearts and minds of its listeners."

The Choir's repertoire will cover everything from Bach and Broadway to American folk hymns and spirituals. Tickets for the concerts are now available, with the exception of the concert at the Ravinia Festival, where lawn tickets go on sale (via Internet only) on November 12, 2012. More specific information on dates, venues and tickets is included below and is also available on the Choir's website (mormontabernaclechoir.org) and on its Facebook page Facebook.com/ MormonTabernacleChoir.

The 2013 Midwest tour will begin on Wednesday, June 12, with a concert in Columbus, Ohio, at the Nationwide Arena. The Choir made a previous visit to Columbus during its 1992 tour. But it will be the first time the Choir will visit Indianapolis, Indiana, which will be the next stop on the tour, on Friday, June 14, at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The Choir and Orchestra will then head to a performance at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday, June 15. The Ravinia Festival warmly welcomed the choir during its 2007 tour. Then it's on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a performance on Monday, June 17,( )at the Milwaukee Theater, which last hosted the Choir in 1992. The Midwest tour continues in Madison on June 18 with a concert at the Overture Center for the Arts. The final stop on the tour will be Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the Choir will perform in the Target Center, a city which was also a 1992 tour destination.

Since its first tour outside of Utah in 1893, the Choir has toured extensively across the United States and abroad. It has performed throughout Europe and in music capitals from Israel and Russia to Japan and Australia. Its travels have also included performances at the inaugurations of six U.S. presidents. The all-volunteer Choir and Orchestra usually tour every other year since all of the performers must take vacation time from their jobs and leave their families to undertake the travel.

The 360-voice choir, accompanied frequently by the 110-member orchestra, can also be heard weekly as part of the Music and the Spoken Word broadcast. This 30-minute program is the world's longest continuing network broadcast and currently airs on over 2,000 radio, TV, cable and satellite stations worldwide. The Choir and Orchestra are active recording artists with their own recording label, Mormon Tabernacle Choir(®).

For more information and additional media resources, please visit www.mormontabernaclechoir.org and click on "Newsroom." Media resources include these brief video clips of Choir members speaking about what it's like to go on tour:


-- Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert Repertoire
-- Transporting the Organ for Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tours
-- Synthia Lambert: Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour Experiences
-- Eric Huntsman: Time Commitment of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Orchestra at Temple Square

Summer 2013 Upper Midwest Tour

Ticket Information


City Venue Tickets Available Tickets Available
Concert Date Time Online/by Phone at: In Person at:
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Columbus, Ohio Nationwide Arena Telephone orders: 1-800-745-3000 Nationwide Arena ticket
office
Wednesday, 12
June 7:30 p.m. Internet orders: nationwidearena.com or ticketmaster.com
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Indianapolis, Bankers Life Fieldhouse Telephone orders: 1-800-745-3000 Bankers Life Fieldhouse box
Indiana office
Friday, 14 June 7:30 p.m. Internet orders: bankerslifefieldhouse.com or
ticketmaster.com
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Chicago, Illinois Ravinia Festival LAWN Tickets available on Monday, 11/12/2012, only via the Starting Saturday, 5/13/2013
Internet at ravinia.org. at the Ravinia box office
Saturday, 15 June 8:00 p.m. PAVILION tickets available starting April 25, 2013.
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Milwaukee, Milwaukee Theater Telephone orders: 1-800-745-3000 Milwaukee Theater box office
Wisconsin and select Wal-Mart stores
Monday, 17 June 7:30 p.m. Internet orders: ticketmaster.com
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Madison, Overture Center for the Arts Telephone orders: 1-608-258-4141 Overture Center for the Arts
Wisconsin box office
Tuesday, 18 June 7:30 p.m. Internet orders: overturecenter.com
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Minneapolis, Target Center Tickets available on Fri., 11/23/2012 Telephone orders:
Minnesota 1-888-929-7849 Target Center box office
Thursday, 20 June 7:30 p.m. Internet orders: targetcenter.com
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SOURCE Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

CONTACT: Kim Farah (801) 240-1977

Web Site: http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org


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