Salt Lake Tribune · Oct 22, 2019
Tabernacle Choir changes how it will hand out tickets to Christmas shows
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, performing at its 2017 Christmas concerts under its former name, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square is changing the way it distributes tickets to its annual Christmas concert — and it may be the closest thing Utah will ever get to a lottery.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will use a computer to randomly select recipients for tickets, from the hundreds of thousands of requests received. This replaces the old first-come, first-served online system the church had used.