Posted on 12/23/2007 7:46:40 PM PST by TheDon
The annual Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert will air around the world during the Christmas season. This year's broadcast will feature the concert performed in 2006 with guest artist, Norwegian singing sensation, Sissel. Check your local listings for times and dates.
PBS AIRINGS
To find the air dates of the Choir special on the PBS station in your area, click here for the PBS Station Finder. Enter your zip code, choose the PBS station for your area, then click on TV schedules and enter Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the search box. The schedule for your area should display. If you have difficulties, call the PBS station at the number in the "Contact Us" section of the station's website.
Sissel Kyrkjebo
Sissel Kyrkjebo was born in 1969 in Bergen, gateway to the fjords on Norway’s west coast. It’s a place where she has always found her muse. “The Norwegian countryside is my inspiration," Sissel says. "I am very proud of Norway and its fantastic nature. All through my childhood we used to go hiking in the mountains every Sunday, whatever the weather.”
When she was only nine Sissel joined a children’s choir under a New Zealand-born conductor and stayed with them for seven years. “That was my musical education," she recalls. "We sang everything – classical and jazz and even Maori songs. People said we sounded like an angels’ choir because we had this very clean pure sound, almost like an English boys’ choir.”
At 14 she made her television debut in another choir on a children’s show, and went on to become a popular child TV performer with a repertoire including Streisand’s "You Don’t Bring Me Flowers."
Sissel’s biggest break came at the age of 16 when she was invited to sing during the intermission of the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest, staged in her hometown of Bergen. Her first album was released when she was 17 and made her a national star overnight.
A rich and varied career spanning almost 20 years has included singing the Olympic hymn at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, representing Norway at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and performing at the first Christmas concert in Moscow with the great tenors Plácido Domingo and Jose Carreras.
In 1996 Sissel was asked by composer James Horner to contribute the haunting, ethereal vocal tracks for his soundtrack to Titanic. The film went on to become the most popular of all time and the soundtrack, best remembered for Celine Dion’s hit single "My Heart Will Go On," sold some 30 million copies worldwide.
In May 2005 she sang with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during a broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Norway's independence.
You can find more information about Sissel at her official site.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the happy post. I am hoping the bigots don’t play Grinch on this one.
OHH I saw it during the week here in SO CAL it was cool concert
Merry Christmas to all......... and to all a good fight! ;>)
Go away.
Excellent ! My college age daughter & her friends will have a blast watching this & laughing at the Momanophobes.
We saw it night before last, and it is excellent! We went out and bought the DVD so we can see it again with family and friends.
Merry Christmas!
Give me Gladys Knight anytime! The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a too tame for my tastes.
By the way, my Mormon friends will sometimes call it “Mo Tab”! :)
Don’t taze me bro.
Wait until they inform Mitt that it will count as an in-kind contribution.
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