- Jerold Ottley
Jerold Ottley was music director of the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1974 to 1999. His duties with the choir included the preparation and performance of nearly thirteen hundred weekly radio and television broadcasts of "Music and the Spoken Word ". He also led the choir in more than thirty commercial recordings and more than twenty major tours in addition to regular concerts in the choir's home in the Salt lake tabernacle.Early in his career, Dr. Ottley was a teacher and conductor in the schools and churches of
Salt Lake City . Just prior to his appointment with the Tabernacle Choir, he taught on the music faculty at theUniversity of Utah and served as the assistant chair of the music department. Since his retirement he has been involved in volunteer work -- for four years as administrator and teacher for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Training School at Temple Square, as a Tabernacle Choir staff volunteer revising the choral library computer database, as artistic advisor to the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable, and as a lay bishop for a congregation of theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . From 2005 to 2008, he directed the University Chorale atBrigham Young University Hawaii , a LDS Church-owned university in the town of Laie on Oahu's north shore.Jerold Ottley is married to soprano JoAnn Ottley with whom he has twenty-two grown children. Their third daughter, Rebecca, is the wife of
Mack Wilberg , current Mormon Tabernacle Choir music director.
***As the one and only daughter of Jerold Ottley, and one of only TWO children, I'm pretty sure Jerold Ottley's third daughter is not married to Mack Wilberg's son, nor are there 20 other siblings I'm not aware of. The rest of the article is surprisingly accurate. Reddheddrev (talk) 19:31, 3 September 2008 (UTC)***Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jerold_Ottley"
External links
* [http://w2.byuh.edu/academics/divisions/far/ottjer.html Biography page at BYU Hawaii]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2016242/ IMDB page for Jerold Ottley]
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