Christmas With The Tabernacle Choir

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.

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.

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.

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.”

Watch the spectacular opening to "Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir." This processional, "When the Shepherds Saw the Light" is based on an old Provençal noël, “Allons bergers, allons, tous.” In this new arrangement by Mack Wilberg, David Warner’s lyrics retain the original noël’s pastoral themes while expounding on the narrative and emotional power of all Christmas stories.

The tune for this popular Christmas song, 'Angels from the Realms of Glory', comes from the 18th-century French carol “Les Anges dans nos Campagnes.” Mack Wilberg’s stirring arrangement features solos by Lea Solanga, this carol has become the signature finale at The Tabernacle Choir’s Christmas concerts.

Felix Mendelssohn began plans to write an oratorio on the subject of the Old Testament prophet Elijah in 1837. This final chorus, "And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth," from Elijah emphasizes the triumph of the faithful, setting scriptural words drawn from Isaiah and the Psalms of David.

The familiar, beloved account of Christ’s birth found in the Gospel of St. Luke has long been the traditional centerpiece of The Tabernacle Choir’s Christmas concerts. In this year’s concert, Sir David Suchet’s narration of the Nativity is accompanied by an orchestral meditation that incorporates musical motifs drawn from the “Rocking Carol.”