Thundershowers threatened to wash out the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, and a comparison was compelling as a daylong drizzle developed into a downpour by the time the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square presented a Saturday evening concert about a mile from the 37-acre farm field where the iconic rock music event was staged.
Showers kept away about a third of the anticipated 2,500 choir and orchestra concert attendees at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a 9-year-old complex deep in the Catskills, comprising a performance pavilion, museum and a monument marking the site of the three-day festival that took place Aug. 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm.
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