Solstice Live!

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Solstice Live!
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Live album by Paul Winter
Released1993
Genre New age, jazz, world
Label Living Music
Producer Les Kahn, Paul Winter
Paul Winter chronology
Earth: Voices of a Planet
(1990)		Solstice Live!
(1993)		 Prayer for the Wild Things
(1994)

Solstice Live! is a live album released by Paul Winter in 1993. The album is a recording of a performance of Paul Winter's annual Winter Solstice Celebration, which takes place in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The concert is a contemporary celebration of the longest night of the year, and the return of the sun. It features contemporary symbols for various parts of the celebration created by Winter. These symbols are both an artistic visual representation of something as well as a musical instrument played on during the performance. These symbols include the Sun Gong, a giant gong that is hit with yellow and red light, and risen 100 feet to the top of the cathedral ceiling, along with its player. Another is the Solstice Tree, a large sculpture of an evergreen tree, upon which is hung various cymbals, bells, chimes and gongs. The performance always features the Paul Winter Consort, and special guest musicians that Paul Winter has met or collaborated with, making it a celebration of the world's people and their music.

Paul Winter American saxophonist

Paul Winter is an American saxophonist who founded the Paul Winter Consort. He has recorded more than 40 albums and won seven Grammy Awards. He has toured and recorded in 52 countries and six continents. He often records while traveling in wilderness areas, including on rafts, mules, dog sleds, horses, kayaks, sailboats, steamers, tug-boats, and Land Rovers. He performs benefit concerts for environmental and world peace organizations.

New York City Largest city in the United States

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Paul Winter Consort band

The Paul Winter Consort is an American musical group, led by soprano saxophonist Paul Winter. Founded in 1967, the group mixes elements of jazz, classical music, world music, and the sounds of animals and nature. They are often classified as "new age" or "ecological jazz", and their musical style is often called "Earth Music". The group has had many lineup changes since it was founded. Long-standing members currently in the group include Paul Winter, cellist Eugene Friesen, bassist Eliot Wadiopan, jazz oboist Paul McCandless, and percussionist and frame drum specialist Glen Velez. Past members who were part of the group for a considerable length of time include Paul Halley, Susan Osborn, Oscar Castro-Neves, Russ Landau, David Darling, Jim Scott, Dorothy Papadakos, and Rhonda Larson.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Fanfare"
  2. "Tomorrow Is My Dancing Day"
  3. "Fog On The Hill"
  4. "Shaman"
  5. "Boon Song"
  6. "Buena Nueva - Good News"
  7. "Nevaga - Neva River"
  8. "Highland Heaven"
  9. "The Sparrow"
  10. "Hodie - Good People All"
  11. "TURNING POINT SUITE: Prelude: Marchade San Benito - Processional March of San Benito"
  12. "The Night Forest"
  13. "River"
  14. "Trickster"
  15. "Return Of The Sun"
  16. "Solstice Chant"
  17. "Christmas Day Is Come/Duet For The Longest Night"
  18. "Down In Belgorod"
  19. "Minuit - Midnight/Adeste Fidelis"

Personnel

Paul Winter Consort

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Guests

Nóirín Ní Riain Irish singer and theologian

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Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble

The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble was founded by Dmitri Pokrovsky (1944-1996) together with his wife and lifelong partner, Tamara Smyslova, in Moscow in 1973 as an experimental singing group under folk Commission of the URSS Сomposers Union.The appearance of this team completely changed in modern society the understanding and view of folklore. For the first time in this Ensemble came together scientific approach to the study of folklore and brilliant stage presentation of it. Professional musicians belonging to the city culture had to master a large number very dissimilar styles of Russian village music. The Pokrovsky Ensemble became the first professional groups who began to study the Russian folk music from authentic village musicians in numerous folklore expeditions. Participants of Pokrovsky Ensemble has been recording, learning and then performing very different traditions, styles and manners of folk singing, playing and dancing, trying to penetrate the rules of its existence, understand the laws of its development. Dmitri Pokrovsky was one of the first musicians who tried to bridge the gap between the old and new music. The credo of The Pokrovsky Ensemble that Russian traditional folk music is a living treasure of Russian culture and is the basis for all classical and contemporary Russian music. Pokrovsky Ensemble became the starting point in the search for new ways to stage implementation of folk music and marked the beginning of a Russian wave in the World music.

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References

    1. "Solstice Live!" Living Music.


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