{"id":26622,"date":"2018-12-16T06:41:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26622"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:22:45","slug":"richard-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/richard-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas Music from Richard Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> concert by the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square is one of the toughest tickets to get in Salt Lake City and the show always goes on to air nationally on PBS.<\/p>\n<p>One of the unheralded heroes of the annual event is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetabernaclechoir.org\/about\/organs\/bios\/richard-elliott.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>organist Richard Elliott<\/strong><\/a>, whose solo performance always brings down the house. Here he is with a very active version of I Saw Three Ships:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJWUVCpGQrc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We have become huge fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Elliott_(organist)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Richard Elliott<\/strong><\/a>. His work at <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creative organ work. We single him out from the Tabernacle Choir only out of the greatest respect for him &#8212; and for them.<\/p>\n<p>He is found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCiAkukrUIRCwaLaFx_MJq7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tabernacle Choir&#8217;s YouTube page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Christmas concert by the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square is one of the toughest tickets to get in Salt Lake City and the show always goes on to air nationally on PBS. One of the unheralded heroes of the annual event is organist Richard Elliott, whose solo performance always brings down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":52,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[796,719],"class_list":["post-26622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-richard-elliott","tag-tabernacle-choir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}