I believe that hope is the message that we must all spread to each other, whether you are religious or not.

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square performed a special concert at the Martin Luther King Jr.

International Chapel with their friends from the glee clubs of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. This is just another step in an emerging,

ongoing friendship that will have great value both to these colleges and to

the Tabernacle Choir, but to the world.

Russell Marion Nelson, Senior, MD, PhD.

This friendship began in April 2023, when Morehouse College presented President Russell M. Nelson with its

Gandhi King Mandela Peace Prize,

and continued to blossom when the glee clubs came to Utah in October 2023 to sing with the choir during a broadcast of Music & the Spoken Word.

The chance to perform together again, strengthen the bond as members of the different choirs stood side by side.

Singing songs of hope together we can share in this love not only of our country, but of the person standing to the left and the person standing to the right. We're back together and we're doing what we love together, which is using music to to share our testimonies of God and to sing praises to Him.

Tonight, I drew inspiration from the diversity of that stage. Like the scripture says black and white, Jew and Gentile, men and women. This text affirms that God is coming from a place of love,

The three choirs premiered “Songs for the People,” composed by Kevin Johnson and arranged by Mack Wilberg.

This text, you know, written by abolitionists.

This is our message for the world.

The message of the poetry is quite strong. It really does reflect the message of hope and things being better in the future.

And like the title of that song, the Tabernacle Choir and the Morehouse and Spelman Glee clubs sang just that.

We wrapped our arms around a troubled world,

and we extended to this community and to all communities an olive branch.

That music is a healer. It was absolutely the most heart-warming, spirit-filled experience of my lifetime.