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Show LDS Choir Heads for Switzerland FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Salt Lake Citys Mormon Tabernacle Choir left here today in a 20 bus cavalcade for Switzerland. The touring musical aggregation planned a sight seeing stop and lunch at Heidelberg before continuing to the Black Forest resort of Baden Baden. The large troupe, which includes 379 members of the choir and more than 200 others, were to stay in Baden Baden Friday night. They will continue on to Bern Saturday for a concert there. The choir, touring Europe for the first time in its 108 year history, wound up its visit to Germany yesterday with two performances in nearby Wiesbaden. It will attend a dedication of a new Mormon temple in Bern Sunday and give a concert in Zurich Wednesday. The singers complete their month long tour in Paris Sept. 17. It has already performed in Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Berlin. The choirs final concert in Germany drew high praise from the Wiesbaden Kurler. The newspaper, in a lengthy review, said The well balanced singing, the assurance and pureness of declamation and the calm approach merged as a proof of best choir culture. It received stormy applause. The Kuriers music critic singled out for special praise conductor J. Spencer Cornwall, pianist Alexander Schreiner, organist Frank Asper and soprano soloist Ewan Harbrecht. In Bern, meantime, President David O. McKay paid his first visit to the new temple in the suburb of Zolikofen on his 82nd birthday yesterday. This is a very fine birthday, indeed, he said as he saw the new building. What a beautiful, well built temple, a worthy house of the Lord. He said he had received about a dozen birthday telegrams, mostly from leading church members. My birthday is no reason for an official church celebration, he said. A private birthday dinner was held in Bern last night for President McKay, his wife, Emma Rae, their son Dr. Edward McKay, and his wife, Lottie. President McKay arrived in Switzerland Wednesday to take part in tne weekend dedication of the new temple. Among other notables expected to take part in the dedication ceremonies is Ezra Taft Benson, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, and a member of the Council of Twelve, the highest body of the LDS church. Sunday, September 11, 1955 Nice day. Cleone and I went to Salt Lake this a.m. and saw Oertel she is much better and we shall go down tomorrow and bring her home or to the Dee Hospital here Alvin Richs daughter Joye Hacker and husband Jim of Orem Utah called. Royal, Cleone, Justin and Shauna and baby Justine called Robert Russell and wife have been busy all day getting ready to go to Ohio I am very tired and worried and shall retire early |
