SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The song the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform during
Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on Friday is \u00ab\u00a0America, the Beautiful,\u00a0\u00bb the Deseret News has learned.
Details have been controlled tightly since the Dec. 22 announcement that the choir would sing at the swearing-in ceremony for America’s 45th president. But the 215 voices from what Ronald Reagan dubbed \u00ab\u00a0America’s Choir\u00a0\u00bb will sing with accompaniment from the Marine Band known as \u00ab\u00a0The President’s Own,\u00a0\u00bb according to an inauguration program posted on the band’s website.
Friday will mark the third time the Tabernacle Choir has performed during the swearing-in ceremony. The choir sang \u00ab\u00a0This is My Country\u00a0\u00bb during the 1965 inauguration of Lyndon Johnson. It sang that same song and \u00ab\u00a0The Star-Spangled Banner\u00a0\u00bb at the 1969 inauguration of Richard Nixon.
The Tabernacle Choir sang prelude music at the swearing-in ceremony for George H. W. Bush in 1989, and it has performed at inaugural parades for Ronald Reagan in 1981, George H. W. Bush in 1989 and George W. Bush in 2001, when it sang \u00ab\u00a0America, the Beautiful. \u00a0\u00bb
Friday’s performance will be from an arrangement by Mack Wilberg, the choir’s director.
The Marine Band also will play \u00ab\u00a0Hail to the Chief\u00a0\u00bb for President Barack Obama as he arrives at the inauguration ceremony, and then play it again for President Trump after he takes the oath of office.
The band also will play \u00ab\u00a0Hail Columbia,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0The Stars and Stripes Forever\u00a0\u00bb and accompany Jackie Evancho as she sings the national anthem.<\/p>\n

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