SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square commemorated the 110th anniversary of its first recording with a news conference at the Conference Center.
Choir president Ron Jarrett cited the historicity of this event and said no one envisioned the Choir would one day become what it presently is today.
Historian Rick Turley confirmed recording was done acoustically in those days, meaning no microphone was used.
Turley stated an engineer from New York-based Columbia Phonograph Company (now Columbia Records) suspended two large horns in the Salt Lake Tabernacle to first capture organist John J. McClellan playing several numbers August 30 and 31, 1910 followed by the choir September 1, 1910.
This set the stage for the first Music and the Spoken Word broadcast July 15, 1929.
