Music conductor Merrilee Webb approaches music like a spiritual athlete.

Her strong fists impale the air. Her visible cues to singers are sweeping, yet fluid. She flares out her arms to embrace the music.

Webb, who lives in Salt Lake City, was conducting a choir during the general Relief Society meeting, as well as concerts by a women's choir, We Also Sing, and a men's choir, Because We Sing.

During the Relief Society meeting, Webb motioned the choir with her eyes and fingers as they sang, "Come O Thou King of Kings," the "joyful message that God lives, the fullness of the gospel is restored and Jesus is the Christ," Webb said.

Webb has been a guest conductor for the general Relief Society and general Young Women meetings several times since 1997 and once back in 1986. In each instance, there were five rehearsals and a dress rehearsal to get the sisters "(to) sing as if they had been singing together forever," Webb said.

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