closing nearly every performance with its signature piece, Beautiful Savior. In 1998, the St. Olaf Choir was chronicled in a book by historian Joseph Shaw. Notable Performances Since the 1920s, the St. Olaf Choir has performed on annual tours domestically throughout all regions of the United States. The choir has attracted capacity audiences at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Severance Hall, the Kauffman Center, Meyerson Symphony Center, and the Orchestra Halls of Chicago and Minneapolis. Furthermore, travels internationally every four years, with previous performances in Scandinavia, Great Britain, France, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia. In 2005 the St. Olaf Choir performed at the White House for President George W. Bush to commemorate The National Day of Prayer. That same year, the choir performed in the final concerts of the National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, only to sing the next day in an acclaimed performance at New York's Carnegie Hall. Internationally, the choir has performed at the Seoul Olympic Arts Festival, the Strasbourg and Bergen Music Festivals, and the closing concert of the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis. In 2007, the choir appeared in a live simulcast of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, which showed on more than 180 movie theatres across the nation and reach 2.5 million viewers on a later PBS broadcast. In December 2011, the 100th St. Olaf Christmas Festival was simulcast to nearly 300 movie theatres. In 2013, the choir appeared in a television special titled “Christmas in Norway with the St. Olaf Choir,” filmed at the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway. The special won 2 regional Emmy Awards in 2014. Also in 2007, the St. Olaf Choir's recording of "Lacrimosa" from Mozart's Requiem appeared in a television commercial for Nike to promote their new Air Jordan XXII shoes. Discography The St. Olaf Choir has recorded 27 full-length albums, and has been included on numerous other recordings (such as yearly recordings of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival). Furthermore, the St. Olaf Choir can be heard in the 1972 western, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. A Choral Tapestry (1994) Advance Australia Fair (1998) At The Ordway Music Theatre (1985) Beautiful Savior (1985) Charles Ives: The Celestial Country (2002) Choral Masterworks Series Vol. I, II, III, and IV (1998, 2002, 2011, 2012) Christmas in Norway (2013) Great Hymns of Faith