The Tabernacle Choir

The most beautiful music I've ever heard was on Sunday by the Choir and Orchestra. They were going to record a two hour session after Music and the Spoken Word, so I think we were lucky that we got to hear the Orchestra too. These people are all volunteers, although they are professional level musicians. We got to hear them rehearse the show once through and then they went on the TV live for another run through. It was Amazing!

The Tabernacle is also an amazing building. It's acoustics are incredible. They demonstrated that you can hear a straight pin drop on the pulpit no matter where you are in the building, all without microphones. There is a new conference center now across the street that will hold 20,000 because the Tabernacle only holds about 5,000 people, so it's not large enough anymore. The organ in the Tabernacle has about 11,000 pipes. We heard a recital by organist also.

We also toured the new conference center and this is the organ there, which has I think 7,000 pipes.