Salt Lake City: Livability in the 21st Century

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Right: Salt Lake City is home to the Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning, 360-member
Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The choir and 150-member orchestra have performed
throughout the United States and around the world, and can also be heard weekly as part
of the Music and the Spoken Word broadcast, a thirty-minute broadcast airing on over
2,000 radio, TV, cable and satellite stations worldwide.
Opposite: During the Christmas season Salt Lake City’s Temple Square, headquarters
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a particularly popular destination for
both residents and visitors alike. From November 25 to January 1, the Temple’s ten-acre
campus is aglow with hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights and nativity scenes.
The breadth of support for visual arts in Salt Lake City is matched only by backing for the theater, dance and music.
Few other comparably sized cities in the U.S. and around the world can boast not only a local symphony, but ballet
and opera as well—all three of which are recognized both nationally and internationally. Abravanel Hall is home to
the venerable Utah Symphony, and Ballet West and the Utah Opera perform at the historic Capitol Theatre—arts
organizations recognized both across the country and around the world. But the options certainly do not end there.
The cutting edge alternative Plan-B Theatre Company, two modern dance companies and the Gina Bauchaur
International Piano Foundation are among the performing arts organizations housed at the Rose Wagner Center for
the Performing Arts. Both renowned plays and Saturday’s Voyeur—an annual, good-natured spoof on conservative
Utah culture—are presented at the Salt Lake Acting Company. And perhaps Salt Lake City’s best-known performers,
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, perform regularly in both the Tabernacle and the Conference Center at Temple Square.
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