Word: aspers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repertory of 1,200 numbers goes from spirituals to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Backed up by the 10,000-pipe tabernacle organ, with Veteran Organists Alexander Schreiner or Frank Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...
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