Season of Light - Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square

The traditional, time-honored stories and beloved tales associated with Christmas are indispensable to the celebrations—Good King Wenceslas, for example, or Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, “A Visit from Saint Nicolas,” The Nutcracker, The Little Match Girl, The Gift of the Magi, and even a newspaper column addressed to a concerned young girl named Virginia. Each of these Christmas stories personifies a reminder that this is a time of joy, hope, compassion, mercy, and love. But the greatest Christmas story of all, the one most central to the season, is the story of a Holy Child born in a humble manger. That Nativity story begins the ultimate expression of love—a divine love extended to all who ever lived—and is the reason for our eternal hope. Lavishly decorated with books of all sizes, the stage in the 21,000-seat Conference Center in Salt Lake City became a “library” for The Tabernacle Choir’s celebration of these myriad Christmas stories. There were tales, told through music, dance, an