- Richard P. Condie
Richard P. Condie (1898-1985) was the conductor of the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir inSalt Lake City ,Utah from 1957 to 1974.Condie was a graduate of
Brigham Young University , 1923 and theNew England Conservatory of Music , 1928. He became assistant conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1937. He taught at theMcCune School of Music in Salt Lake City, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah,Utah State University in Logan Utah and at theUniversity of Utah in Salt Lake City. After he became director of the Tabernacle Choir he formed a relationship withEugene Ormandy and thePhiladelphia Orchestra . Their most famous collaboration was the production of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1958 which won a Grammy Award.References
* [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=70573219c786b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 "New Conductors Apointed for the Tabernacle Choir"] , "Ensign", Sep. 1974, pp. 94–95
*"Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History", (Arnold K. Garr,Donald Q. Cannon ,Richard O Cowan , andRichard Neitzel Holzapfel ,Deseret Book Company , Salt Lake City, November 2000) ISBN 1573458228
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