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...parents put a tall phonograph and a stack of symphony records within reach, and Baby Dunn would change the records. At the age of twelve, he was playing the organ at the regular services at the Third Lutheran Church in Baltimore; at 16, he was conducting the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1960 as conductor of the 29-year-old choral society called the Cantata Singers, and his Philharmonic Hall debut with the Festival Orchestra, performing the Brandenburg concertos...
Polyphony, Not Polygamy. The program and the choir were never-and are not-intended to proselytize. In fact, the word Mormon is mentioned only twice in each show, and then only in the name of the choir. "The aim of the broadcasts was and is intended to achieve a universality," says Apostle Richard L. Evans, who for 33 years has supplied the spoken word. His sermonettes heard with the choir contain no doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, in stead deal with Christian ethics. "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin...
...choir sings Mormon hymns no more often than Catholic or Protestant ones. But Mormon President David McKay called the choir's general effect "inestimable" in helping 13,000 Mormon missionaries over the world bring in multitudes of converts (100,000 last year) to a church once only known and derided for its long-banned polygamy. "The choir makes friends and opens doors," says Richard Condie, 65, choirmaster since 1957 and a professor of music at the University of Utah. He directs 375 singers, divided into four-part men's and four-part women's choruses. All members...
Uncanned Covenant. The choir has never been better. When Condie took over, he auditioned everyone in it and let 75 go at once. "It wasn't a pleasant thing to do," he says. Now there are auditions at least every two years. Rehearsals are held only two hours a week, but the choir never actually rehearses the entire radio program as it is broadcast. Condie tapes rehearsals, plays them through to himself, and corrects flaws next time around...
...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...