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Park City Resident Performs With The Tabernacle Choir For Fifth Time

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Part time Park City resident Nancy Peery Marriott was the featured soloist at Sunday’s performance of Music and the Spoken Word – the 90 year old weekly broadcast featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher has more.

This was the fifth time Nancy Marriott has performed with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square – four of those were inside the near-acoustically perfect tabernacle chambers featuring the 360-member choir, 85-member orchestra and 11-thousand pipe organ.

Performances as a guest artist are by invitation only from the choir. Marriott joins the likes of Kristen Chenoweth, Sting and even The Muppets who have performed as a guest artist. For Marriott, it’s a thrill every time…

“I’ve been blessed because I’ve done it five times, Marriott said. “If you do it once in your lifetime, you’re fortunate.  And I’ve worked for 4 different conductors.  I’ve been fortunate to sing all over the place and there’s nothing like singing with the choir and like singing with the spirit that’s in that Tabernacle and I have so many found memories of that.”  

She says for those who haven’t seen the show produced live, it’s nothing like what you see on television…

“You know you have to be there to get in the full spirit, she recommended. “Just like the broadcast, you have to attend it. There’s nothing like live versus television – sorry, this is true. It’s like a football game you go there and you’re going nuts and you know on TV, you go and get some popcorn and you and come back. It’s not quite the same.”

Of the seven pieces in the half hour program, Marriott performed two solos, Over the Rainbow and Let There Be Peace on Earth. She also joined in for the final hymn of the show.

Marriott sings soprano and has appeared in concerts through the United States, including Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as well as with the Utah Symphony Orchestra as the soloist in Handel’s Messiah.

Marriott’s husband, four daughters and their families, in addition to Senator Orrin Hatch, were in attendance for Sunday’s performance.

Anyone 8 years and older is welcome to attend a live broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word on Sunday mornings for free. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. and guests must be seated by 9:15. The  half hour live broadcast begins at 9:30.

Tickets are not required, except for during the spring and fall general conferences. The broadcast moves from the Tabernacle building to the larger Conference Center certain times of the year. You can find the schedule here.