Mormon Tabernacle Choir



The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, formerly the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and colloquially referred to as Tab Choir or MoTab, is a 360-member choir. The choir is part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It has performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for over a hundred years. The Tabernacle houses an organ, consisting of 11,623 pipes, which usually accompanies the choir.

The choir was founded in August 1847, one month after the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley. Prospective singers must be LDS Church members who are eligible for a temple recommend, between 25 and 55 years of age at the start of choir service, and live within 100 miles (160.934 km) of Temple Square.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, the choir first appeared in this story (and at the time, men wore black suits, white dress shirts and red neckties and women wore lavender long-sleeve long dresses) when they became an item of pop culture by performing with the Filipino band Eraserheads in Manila, Philippines where they performed on Smart Araneta Coliseum in front of 140,000 listeners during an Araw ng Kalayaan concert where Su Ji-Hoon attended.

They also appear together in Ivan Drago's dream with the Johann Strauss Orchestra and the Alexandrov Ensemble, including Alisah Bonaobra, who is on the center of the ring (leading the choirs and the orchestras, including the audience, while singing), in performing the national anthem of the Unified Soviet Red Assault Command all together during SovietMania I's final match between Captain Rock Man (Arnold Perlstein and Weatherman (Ralphie Tennelli) in a hardcore Gulag in a Cell (a parody of a Hell in a Cell match) match before the match's ring announcer (and color commentator) Elena Vasilieva would be announcing the start of this match.

In all concerts throughout the entire story, they could be that all men in this choir wore black suits with white dress shirts and either black bowties, red neckties, lavender neckties or blue neckties, and for wome in this choir, they also wore long-sleevered long dresses that are either blue, red or lavender-colored due to the choir regulations.