This weekend, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gather to listen to sermons by their leaders and to be inspired by sacred hymns at the 188th Semiannual General Conference, the beloved musicians sitting beneath the gigantic organ in downtown Salt Lake City’s Conference Center will have a new name, simply: “The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.”
The change comes in response to church President Russell M. Nelson’s August 2018 edict to use the church’s full name, and discontinue using the term “Mormon” as shorthand for the Utah-based faith and its members.