Richard P. Condie

Richard P. Condie (1898-1985) was the conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1957 to 1974.

Condie was a graduate of Brigham Young University, 1923 and the New England Conservatory of Music, 1928. He became assistant conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1937. He taught at the McCune School of Music in Salt Lake City, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Utah State University in Logan Utah and at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. After he became director of the Tabernacle Choir he formed a relationship with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia 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, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, November 2000) ISBN 1573458228