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United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">27 October 1930<span style="display:none">(1930-10-27)</span> (aged 76)<br /><a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a>, Utah, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_Evan_Stephens_(1854%E2%80%931930).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Signature_of_Evan_Stephens_%281854%E2%80%931930%29.png/220px-Signature_of_Evan_Stephens_%281854%E2%80%931930%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="42" class="mw-file-element" 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He was also the director of the <a href="/wiki/Mormon_Tabernacle_Choir" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon Tabernacle Choir">Mormon Tabernacle Choir</a> for 26 years (1890–1916). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_family">Early life and family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stephens was born at <a href="/wiki/Pencader,_Carmarthenshire" title="Pencader, Carmarthenshire">Pencader</a>, Wales. He moved with his family to <a href="/wiki/Willard,_Utah" title="Willard, Utah">Willard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Utah_Territory" title="Utah Territory">Utah Territory</a> when he was twelve.<sup id="cite_ref-Roper_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roper-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents had converted to <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> (LDS Church) before his birth. When he was a very small child his mother would take him with her to work in the fields as she raised money to help pay to build the <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_Temple" title="Salt Lake Temple">Salt Lake Temple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cornwall_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cornwall-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bergman_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stephens performed in his local congregation's <a href="/wiki/Choir" title="Choir">choir</a> as a boy. When <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young" title="Brigham Young">Brigham Young</a> came to visit, Stephens was embarrassed by his poverty, particularly his lack of coat or shoes, and painted his feet black with shoe polish. At the bowery before Young entered the building, Stephens became overcome with embarrassment and started to exit the building but ran into Young entering the building. Young encouraged him to sing and he returned to the bowery and sang.<sup id="cite_ref-Roper_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roper-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stephens never married. He had an attachment to a girl in Willard when he was in his early twenties, but she died in a <a href="/wiki/Freak_accident" class="mw-redirect" title="Freak accident">freak accident</a> while in a stage performance.<sup id="cite_ref-Bergman_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, Stephens was engaged to a woman who made a deathbed request at the end of her brief illness that he love her through his music.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his death, Stephens was <a href="/wiki/Sealing_(Latter_Day_Saints)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sealing (Latter Day Saints)">sealed</a> by proxy to his great niece, Sarah Daniels. Stephens had intended on marrying her, and arranged for her to come to Utah from the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> in 1902. Stephens had anticipated that she would convert to the LDS Church on coming to Utah, but when this did not happen, he arranged for her to be his housekeeper. According to interviews of Stephens's relatives conducted in the 1950s and the 1990s, Stephens stated that Daniels would have made a good wife, but he would only marry a member of the LDS Church.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Stephens died, Daniels did join the LDS Church and she was sealed to him by proxy on 5 November 1931 in the <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_Temple" title="Salt Lake Temple">Salt Lake Temple</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Ordinance_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Ordinance (Latter Day Saints)">ordinance</a> having been approved by <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Church_(LDS_Church)" title="President of the Church (LDS Church)">LDS Church president</a> <a href="/wiki/Heber_J._Grant" title="Heber J. Grant">Heber J. Grant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stephens studied at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Deseret" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Deseret">University of Deseret</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Teaching_music">Teaching music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Teaching music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1885 to 1900, Stephens directed the teaching of music at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Utah" title="University of Utah">University of Utah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-britannia_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britannia-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stephens also served as the first public school music supervisor in Utah.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_writings">Musical writings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Musical writings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1899, the <i>Missionary Song Book</i>, edited by Stephens, was distributed in the LDS Church's Southern States <a href="/wiki/Mission_(LDS_Church)" title="Mission (LDS Church)">Mission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1927 English-language LDS Church hymnal there were 84 hymns written by Stephens.<sup id="cite_ref-Bergman_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stephens's 18 works in the 1985 English-language edition of the <a href="/wiki/Hymns_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_(1985_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 book)">LDS Church hymnal</a> are: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li>No. 11 "What Was Witnessed in the Heavens" (music),</li> <li>No. 17 "Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake!" (music),</li> <li>No. 18 "The Voice of God Again is Heard" (words and music),</li> <li>Nos. 23 (standard) & 312 (women) "We Ever Pray for Thee" (text and adaptation of music by H. A. Tuckett),</li> <li>No. 33 "Our Mountain Home So Dear" (music),</li> <li>No. 35 "For the Strength of the Hills" (music),</li> <li>No. 55 "Lo, the Mighty God Appearing!" (music),</li> <li>No. 61 "Raise Your Voices to the Lord" (words and music),</li> <li>No. 74 "Praise Ye the Lord" (music),</li> <li>No. 91 "Father thy Children to Thee Now Raise" (words and music),</li> <li>No. 118 "Ye Simple Souls who Stray" (music),</li> <li>No. 120 "Lean on My Ample Arm" (music),</li> <li>No. 183 "In Remembrance of Thy Suffering" (words and music),</li> <li>No. 229 "Today, While the Sun Shines" (music),</li> <li>No. 243 "Let Us All Press On" (words and music),</li> <li>No. 254 "True to the Faith" (words and music),</li> <li>No. 330 "See The Mighty Angel Flying" (music), and</li> <li>No. 337 "O Home Beloved" (words).</li></ul> </div> <p>Included among Stephens's works is "<a href="/wiki/Utah,_We_Love_Thee" title="Utah, We Love Thee">Utah, We Love Thee</a>" (also sometimes referred to as "Land of the Mountains High"), which became the official state song of Utah in 1937. In 2003, it was designated the official state hymn, and <a href="/wiki/Utah%E2%80%A6This_Is_The_Place" class="mw-redirect" title="Utah…This Is The Place">a new state song</a> was named. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Directing_the_Mormon_Tabernacle_Choir">Directing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Directing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Evan_Stephens_Portrait.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Evan_Stephens_Portrait.PNG/250px-Evan_Stephens_Portrait.PNG" decoding="async" width="250" height="346" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Evan_Stephens_Portrait.PNG/375px-Evan_Stephens_Portrait.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Evan_Stephens_Portrait.PNG/500px-Evan_Stephens_Portrait.PNG 2x" data-file-width="903" data-file-height="1250" /></a><figcaption>Evan Stephens</figcaption></figure> <p>Under Evan Stephens's direction the size of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir increased from 125 members to over 300.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stephens was also the director of the choir who moved it into the field of performing concerts at non-religious events.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For part of the time that Stephens was director of the choir, he held the title of president of the choir and was assisted by two counselors, echoing a system of ecclesiastical leadership used throughout the LDS Church.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 1895, Stephens became the first man employed by the LDS Church as full-time choir director. Prior to this, the director of the choir had been viewed as a part-time office, who although given a stipend for his service, was expected to earn his main employ by other methods. In 1895, the leaders of the church decided to make the position of choir director full-time and doubled Stephens salary.<sup id="cite_ref-Bergman_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alleged_homosexuality">Alleged homosexuality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Alleged homosexuality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In his book, <i>Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century Americans</i>, published in 1996, historian <a href="/wiki/D._Michael_Quinn" title="D. Michael Quinn">D. Michael Quinn</a> expresses his view that Stephens had homosexual relationships and that these were tolerated by the LDS Church hierarchy.<sup id="cite_ref-Quinn_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quinn-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elsewhere, Quinn has theorised that the unmarried Stephens had intimate relationships and shared the same bed with a series of male domestic partners and travelling companions.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Quinn claims that some of these relationships were described under a pseudonym in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Children%27s_Friend_(LDS_magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Children's Friend (LDS magazine)">The Children's Friend</a></i>, a church magazine for children.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Quinn has admitted that it is possible Stephens never engaged in homosexual conduct.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several other Mormon writers, including George L. Mitton and <a href="/wiki/Rhett_S._James" title="Rhett S. James">Rhett S. James</a>, have called Quinn's research on Stephens into question. They argue that Quinn has engaged in an opportunistic distortion of LDS Church history; they deny any acceptance from previous leaders of homosexual behaviour; and state the teachings of the current leadership of the church "is entirely consistent with the teachings of past leaders and with the scriptures."<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Specifically, Mitton and James disagree with Quinn's theory that Stephens was involved in intimate relationships with other men, or that the article in <i>The Children's Friend</i> was about these relationships. They point to it instead as reflecting normal youthful respect for older males. They also point out that Stephens's relationship with his great niece, Sarah Daniels, undermines Quinn's claims. Specifically, Stephens maintained a large number of students as residents in his household to prevent the image of impropriety with Daniels, since if he had lived alone with her without other witnesses around, it would have opened him up to accusations of a scandalous relationship. They state that Stephens "is known only as a strictly moral Christian gentleman."<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mitton and James also point out that the death of Stephens's fiancee led him to remember her through his music, and that this was a very real and deep-seated emotional connection for him.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ray Bergman—who was in one of Stephens's youth choirs—also disputes any claims that Stephens was homosexual.<sup id="cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homosexuality_and_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_Loveth_His_Children" title="God Loveth His Children">God Loveth His Children</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output 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.id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRoper2004" class="citation news cs1">Roper, Patricia Reece (July 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2004/07/courage-and-a-kind-word?lang=eng">"Courage and a Kind Word"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Friend_(LDS_magazine)" title="The Friend (LDS magazine)">The Friend</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 April</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Friend&rft.atitle=Courage+and+a+Kind+Word&rft.date=2004-07&rft.aulast=Roper&rft.aufirst=Patricia+Reece&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.churchofjesuschrist.org%2Fstudy%2Ffriend%2F2004%2F07%2Fcourage-and-a-kind-word%3Flang%3Deng&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Stephens" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cornwall-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Cornwall_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCornwall1975" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/J._Spencer_Cornwall" title="J. Spencer Cornwall">Cornwall, J. Spencer</a> (1975). <i>The Story of Our Mormon Hymns</i> (4th ed.). Salt Lake City, Utah: <a href="/wiki/Deseret_Book" class="mw-redirect" title="Deseret Book">Deseret Book</a>. p. 155. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0877472459" title="Special:BookSources/0877472459"><bdi>0877472459</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Story+of+Our+Mormon+Hymns&rft.place=Salt+Lake+City%2C+Utah&rft.pages=155&rft.edition=4th&rft.pub=Deseret+Book&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=0877472459&rft.aulast=Cornwall&rft.aufirst=J.+Spencer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Stephens" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bergman-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bergman_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergman_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergman_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergman_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergman, Ray L. <i>The Children Sang: The Life and Music of Evan Stephens with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir</i>. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Northwest Publishing Inc., 1992).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-QuinnResponse-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-QuinnResponse_5-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">George L. Mitton, Rhett S. 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Michael Quinn, Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 1998. pp. 141–263.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-britannia-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-britannia_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150324203430/http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/facts/facts3.html">"Fact About Wales and the Welsh"</a>. <i>Wales on Britannia</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/facts/facts3.html">the original</a> on 24 March 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 April</span> 2021</span>. <q>Section 11. Welsh Immigrants began The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Wales+on+Britannia&rft.atitle=Fact+About+Wales+and+the+Welsh&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannia.com%2Fceltic%2Fwales%2Ffacts%2Ffacts3.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvan+Stephens" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hicks, Michael. <i>Mormonism and Music</i>. p. 129</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/articles/past-choir-directors.html">Newsroom – Timeline</a>, churchofjesuschrist.org, accessed 29 March 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark David Porcaro, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/etd&CISOPTR=394">p. 20 "The Secularization of the Repertoire of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, 1949–1992"</a>, PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Conference Report</i>, April 1904, p. 75.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Quinn-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Quinn_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">D. Michael Quinn (2001), <i>Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century Americans: a Mormon Example</i>, University of Illinois Press.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">D. Michael Quinn (1995), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=27086&CISOSHOW=27002&REC=12">"Male-Male Intimacy among Nineteenth-century Mormons—a Case Study"</a>, 28(4) <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogue:_A_Journal_of_Mormon_Thought" title="Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought">Dialogue</a></i> 105–28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anonymous (October 1919), "Evan Bach [Evan Stephens]: A True Story for Little Folk, by a Pioneer," <b>18</b> <i>The Children's Friend</i> 386.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ray Bergman, <i>Logan Herald Journal</i>, 1996-04-10, p. 18.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bergman, Ray L. <i>The Children Sang: the Life and Music of Evan Stephens with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir</i>. ed. ... by James Van Treese. Salt Lake City, Utah: Northwest Publishing, 1992. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-880416-38-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-880416-38-7">1-880416-38-7</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Stephens&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Evan_Stephens" class="extiw" title="choralwiki:Evan Stephens">Free scores by Evan Stephens</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Choral_Public_Domain_Library" title="Choral Public Domain Library">Choral Public Domain Library</a> (ChoralWiki)</li></ul> <div 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