Millennium Choir

My soul doth magnify the Lord

My spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Savior

For He that is mighty, hath done great things to me

My soul doth magnify the Lord.

-Luke 1:45-49

Emily, Jenny, Sarah, Melissa, Katie, Lex, Georgia

It has been a great privilege to sing with Millennium Choir for 14 years (or something like that). We've sung grand concerts with full orchestra in Abravenel Hall and at the Provo Tabernacle and in countless churches in the Salt Lake valley. We've performed small firesides for the youth and for the Single Adults and performed musical numbers in Sacrament meetings. We've performed concerts in the Tabernacle with an antiphonal choir made up of individuals from around the world singing into their computers from home.

We have performed Christmas concerts with music from "Gloria" and Jazz adaptations of Christmas songs along with The One Voice Children's Choir. We've traveled to sing in LA at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, San Diego at the Crystal Cathedral, Rexburg Idaho at the then Ricks College, in Ogden at Weber University, and at a venue in St. George. One of the greatest regrets in my life is not joining the choir in Jerusalem. It was the first week of my graduate program starting and I wish that I had made arrangements so I could have been there for what was a life changing experience for those who went.

I've had the wonderful (and difficult) experience of recording a few albums of the works of Lex including "Variations on a Theme: 2", "Variations on a Theme: 3",  and "The Life of Christ Part III: Hosanna" and am currently recording with the choir "The Life of Christ Part II: Alleluia".  What a pleasure to be able to learn and sing with Lex deAzevedo, We grew up singing his music from "Saturday's Warrior" and "My Turn on Earth", to "Missionaries of Light" and "Christmas" one of our family's favorite Christmas tapes to listen to each year.

Singing with Lex has been such an eye-opening experience into the mind of a talented artist. Even until the moment of recording a song, Lex is tweaking, re-writing, updating and changing. I've learned to never, ever be without a pencil in a Millennium rehearsal because even in the last rehearsal an hour before a performance, you can't expect to be singing "the ink". And I've learned that he changes things because his work is never settled. It is a dynamic thing. It lives in him and we are just the outward expression of something moving and breathing inside his brain and heart. What a blessing it is to be part of his masterful process.

The sound booth

Because of Millennium Choir and our association with Lex de Azevedo, we've been invited to sing at the Pearl Awards and at BYU's Women's Conference. We were asked to be the performing choir for Kurt Bestor's Annual Christmas concert one year.

Jenny, Sally, Sarah, Mary, Val, Saria, Kathy, Jenny, Katie, Georgia, Melissa, Linda, Karen

Sally, Melissa, Georgia, Linda, Sarah, Saria, Kathy

Tabernacle Nov 2011 -  Sally, Jesse, Sarah, Todd, Melissa, Georgia, Linda, Katie

We became part of  Odyssey Chorale and performed reader's theater versions of "Into the Woods" and "Fiddler on the Roof" and performed the mash-up of Handel's "Messiah" and the gospel adaptation several years in a row. Additionally Odyssey Chorale gave me the privilege of traveling to and performing in many of the great cathedrals in Italy and Middle Eastern Europe (Prague, Budapest, and Vienna).

Eastern Europe Trip 2014 

Because of my membership in Millennium Choir I got to know and love Sally Brinton which led to me being able to sing with The Sally Bytheway Chorale for the past 10 years. It has been such a joy to be able to sing with Sarah and Katie and mom for years and now even Dad has joined us. This choir has become my mental release and my weekly centering. I've become fast friends with so many people and as any check of my Facebook photos will tell you, my life-long soprano friends.

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What a blessing being a part of this choir and knowing Lex de Azevedo has been in my life. I am so grateful for the ability to be able to use my love of music to share the gospel and to share my testimony though these wonderful songs and these wonderful opportunities. May they continue for many, many years to come.