From the Web: The Piano Guys #ShareTheGift with MoTab in Christmas video
Though not quite the small and humble manger scene oft described in the Christmas story each holiday season, the impressive Nativity display put on earlier this month in Provo’s Rock Canyon Park still brought with it an incredible sense of wonder that truly has to be seen to be believed.
Luckily for you, that’s possible now thanks to a video released Friday by popular Utah instrumentalists The Piano Guys.
Several well-known musicians from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined together to create the Christmas music video featuring the song “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
The song is performed by The Piano Guys, Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson and Peter Hollens, as well as David Archuleta and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The video also includes footage shot at a live nativity performed in Provo on Dec. 1 that earned the Guinness Book of World Records title for the largest live nativity. The nativity scenes feature several well-known locals, including singer Alex Boye and YouTube prankster Stuart Edge and a choir of angels, who are members of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
According to The Piano Guys, the project took more than four weeks create, and more than 1,300 people helped with the project.
The end result is an incredible musical display revolving around the manger scene and meshing in moments captured from the filming of the World Record breaking event Dec. 1, including a breathtaking visual finale.
The song “Angels form the Realms of Glory,” can also be downloaded for free at http://thepianoguys.com/sharethegift/.
The video is part of the #ShareTheGift campaign created by the LDS Church.
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The live Nativity starred Flo Donelli as Mary, Andrew Jueidi as Joseph, Hudson Scott as infant Jesus, Peter Hollens, Stuart Edge, Natalie Madsen and Jeremy Warner and as shepherds and Alex Boyé, Shay Carl and Richard Sharrah as wisemen. The entire collaborative project drew on the talents of local YouTube, music and television personalities as well as on hundreds of community volunteers.