Farewell to a musical titan
For decades, Jay Welch and singing were an inseparable combination.
Welch - who died Monday at the age of 83 - was assistant conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1957 to 1974, when he served six months as the choir's conductor but quit due to illness. One of his first accomplishments as assistant conductor was to form the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.
Welch also founded the Jay Welch Chorale and the Salt Lake Repertory Orchestra, and was a professor at the University of Utah for 39 years.
"He was one of the greatest men I ever knew," Doreen Maxfield Payne, who for 11 years was assistant conductor of the Jay Welch Chorale (now called the Salt Lake Choral Artists), told the Tribune's David Burger. "I can't give you enough superlatives."
Welch - who died Monday at the age of 83 - was assistant conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1957 to 1974, when he served six months as the choir's conductor but quit due to illness. One of his first accomplishments as assistant conductor was to form the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.
Welch also founded the Jay Welch Chorale and the Salt Lake Repertory Orchestra, and was a professor at the University of Utah for 39 years.
"He was one of the greatest men I ever knew," Doreen Maxfield Payne, who for 11 years was assistant conductor of the Jay Welch Chorale (now called the Salt Lake Choral Artists), told the Tribune's David Burger. "I can't give you enough superlatives."
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