SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has canceled a scheduled European tour next year due to concerns about terrorism. The choir, which was going to make a summer tour of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, will make stops across the northwestern United States instead, the Associated Press reported.
The change in plans for the 360-voice group came after Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said it would make the group an easy target for terrorists.
Initially the trip was changed to different European countries, but that was also determined to be too risky. Instead, the choir will tour northern California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington and Idaho.
The choir has made 11 international tours, visiting Canada, Brazil, Central America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Israel and the former Soviet Union. Its first trip outside Utah was to Chicago in 1893 for the Columbian Exposition.
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