Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir
The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square join with award winning artists Lea Salonga and Sir David Suchet for Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir, a festive and uplifting Christmas special. Filmed with a live audience, this concert will illuminate your holiday experience with timeless carols, treasured Christmas songs and a story of heroic service.
Episodes
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Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir
S2023 E1 - 1h 25m
The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square join with award winning artists Lea Salonga and Sir David Suchet for Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir, a festive and uplifting Christmas special. Filmed with a live audience, this concert will illuminate your holiday experience with timeless carols, treasured Christmas songs and a story of heroic service.
Extras + Features
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The Light That Shines Forever
S2023 - 22m 38s
World-renowned screen and stage actor Sir David Suchet presents the true and hope-filled story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a real-life hero who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during World War II. Universally moving, and accompanied beautifully by the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra, this part of the special invites hope and welcomes the spirit of sharing goodness this holiday season.
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Saving The Children: Insights from Nick Winton
S2023 - 4m 2s
The son of Sir Nicholas Winton talks about his father's rescue work during World War II. There are many thousands of people across the world who are alive today because Sir Nicholas Winton helped rescue Jewish children at risk of being murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust. Hear what Nick Winton thinks his father would want, were he alive today.
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Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming
S2023 - 3m 16s
Watch The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra perform 'Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming'. This German devotional poem that this hymn is based on, “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen”, dates from the 15th century. Based on Messianic prophecies from Isaiah, the rose in this carol is a symbolic reference to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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Here We Come A-Caroling
S2023 - 3m 3s
Watch the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra perform a rousing version of 'Here We Come A-Caroling'. The practice of communal caroling involved going door-to-door at Christmastime offering wishes of prosperity and good health and sharing food or drink together. This carol gained popularity during the Victorian era, when it likely spread to the United States with English immigrants.
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Payapang Daigdig
S2023 - 2m 53s
Payapang Daigdig, a beloved Philippine carol, is sometimes regarded as the Filipino equivalent of the Austrian carol “Silent Night,” as both carols refer to the stars as harbingers of peace in the world. This arrangement of “Payapang Daigdig,” which combines the two carols from different centuries and continents, was written by Mack Wilberg especially for Lea Salonga and The Tabernacle Choir.
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The Story Goes On (from "Baby")
S2023 - 5m 38s
Lea Salonga, along with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra perform a moving rendition of "The Story Goes On" from the Broadway musical "Baby. Salonga (who played one of the leads in the 2004 Manila production of "Baby") explains that, like the women in "Baby"', the story of the Holy Nativity is also story about a woman—the virgin Mary—“a first-time mother with a unique role and responsibility.”
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Backstage with Sir David Suchet
S2023 - 5m 8s
Go behind the scenes of Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir with guest artist Sir David Suchet. The renowned star of television and film was terrified when he first walked into the Tabernacle Choir's Conference Center at Temple Square. Hear how he overcame his jitters to join in the storytelling and share his own personal accounts of the truths celebrated at Christmas.
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I'll Be Home for Christmas
S2023 - 2m 54s
Listen as Lea Salonga sings her stirring rendition of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" with the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. The wartime origins of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” underscore both the song’s hope and its poignancy. Lyricist Kim Gannon wasn’t thinking of soldiers specifically when he wrote these lyrics, but rather all people who were separated from their families by World War II.
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