Home for the Holidays was recorded during the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir's 2012
Christmas shows in the
LDS Conference Center, with special guests English tenor
Alfie Boe, former NBC News anchor
Tom Brokaw, and Retired Col.
Gail Halvorsen aka "Candy Bomber".[2] An album and concert DVD were released on October 15, 2013 along with a companion book titled Christmas from Heaven: The Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber.[3][4][5] The recorded concert will be broadcast on
PBS premiering December 10, 2013.[6] The Salt Lake Tribune said concerning this performance that "this year's edition may have topped them all."[7]
Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square
4:40
12.
"Angels From the Realms of Glory"
Alfie Boe with Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square
4:38
Total length:
59:49
The DVD and Blu-ray disc version also include tracks of a reading of
Luke 2 by
Tom Brokaw (2:24 in length) and Christmas From Heaven by Brokaw and Halvorsen (13:22 in length).