The ritual annual solstice, the Paul Winter Consort celebrates the first Sunrise of the summer in the vast acoustics of the largest Cathedral in the world, Cathedral of St. John in New York the Divine. Starting in total darkness, musicians that surround the audience play continuously for two hours as the Cathedral stained glass windows illuminate gradually to inaugurate the longest day of the year.
For its 16th annual performance, the Consort will be first music of the album won a Grammy Miho: trip to the mountain, inspired by the architecture, landscape and Antiquities of Miho Museum of i. Mr. Pei in the mountains of Shigaraki, near Kyoto, the Japan.
Join the soprano saxophonist of 7 times won a Grammy Paul Winter are cellist Eugene Friesen; Armenian singer / percussionist Arto Tunçboyaciyan. Paul McCandless oboe, English Horn and bass clarinet; Tibetan singer Yangjin Lamu; Master bansuri (Indian flute) Steve Gorn; percussionist Glen Velez. Yukiko Matsuyama on koto; and Tim Brumfield on the organ of the Cathedral.
"The summer solstice is one of the major turning points of the year, when the Sun is at its peak and the days abound with the promise of the fullness of life," winter said. "It is a serenely powerful moment in which the beauty of the natural world can inspire our spirit, make living at the present time and may awaken a deeper sense of kinship to the community of life, the Earth and the cosmos."
The Paul Winter Consort of first performed summer solstice in 1994 as a counterpoint to his series of concerts of winter solstice popular, that attracts 10,000 members of the audience and is broadcast on 300 stations of National Public Radio each December. Just as these more long days of the year however from June to December more long nights, the simplicity of this acoustic concert throughout the summer is the opposite of the very theatrical winter concerts.
Winter welcome this opportunity to make a musical journey more intimate and reflective, in which players and listeners alike can revel in the extraordinary acoustics of the Cathedral, with its 150-foot dome, 600 feet length and the reflection of seven seconds.
"My dream is to offer an experience of resonance through a journey deep-listening in the mystical atmosphere of these very early in the morning in this space awesome." At the end of the concert, there is a feeling shared between the public and the musicians who, together, we took part at the dawn of the summer, "said winter."
On the album of Miho, clear winter sax it intertwines with taiko drums, flute bansuri, violin sarangi, dancing, waterfalls and bells of the Miho. All are used to form an image changing, meditative paradise reflected in iconic Miho Museum of Japan and its collection of Antiquities. Renowned American architect I.M. Pei world came out of retirement to design the Museum, reached by a tunnel insulation means to clear the mind, and then by a graceful suspension bridge on a stunning gorge.
Immediately after the concert, the whole public is invited to a free tee and coffee reception in the nave of the Cathedral, in which members of the public can meet each other with the musicians.
"OUR DEEPEST EVENT OF THE YEAR".
The solstice word comes from the Latin sol (sun) and stitium (to keep). During the winter solstice, the Sun it reached the most southerly of the Ecuador point and seems to pause before reversing her course; the summer solstice, the sun reaches its northernmost point and, again, appears to be even before back.
But while the summer solstice offers perspective on all year, sunrise concert also celebrates the importance of taking each morning. Winter calls it, "our deepest event of the year".
"" There is a sense of timelessness and possibility early morning, winter said. "" "". When I awoke in darkness before dawn - as the birds begin to sing, and the Earth is preparing for the Sun - I feel as if life begins again. There is something magical about this time virgin, when we are free to our usual patterns and obligations. My dream of evoking that feeling in music was the initial inspiration for the summer solstice. »
Winter long thought midsummer as a favourable opportunity for music making. Since ten years, these performances gave a series of acclaimed live recordings, including album Grammy award-winning winter 1999 Celtic Solstice, Davy Spillane, Karan Casey, Joanie Madden and Eileen Ivers. and his journey with the Sun, in 2001, which received a nomination at the Grammy Awards for best album of world music, featuring Mickey Hart, Arto Tunçboyaciyan, Niamh Parsons and Spillane.
Photo high resolution show last year, the (Rhonda Dorsett credit):
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CONCERT DETAILS
The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street, Manhattan.
Tickets for this concert from 4: 30, Saturday June 18 are available at http://www.solsticeconcert.com or by calling (866) 811-4111 General admission $ 35.
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PAUL WINTER
Paul Winter is a Grammy Award-winning saxophonist seven times, whose jazz sextet was the first group of jazz to perform at the White House, at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy. In 1962, his sextet on tour in Latin America as cultural ambassadors for the US State Department, playing 160 concerts in 23 countries. Hear the songs of whales to bump for the first time in 1968 expanded the concept of winter of a musical community.
Rich sound textures of the Paul Winter Consort to create music with a unique and attractive quality. the sounds of nature are interspersed with classic and ethnic traditions, then impregnated the spontaneous spirit of jazz. For 30 years, the Consort artists in residence at the Cathedral of Saint John the divine in New York.
Paul Winter has played in more than 2,000 rooms of major concerts, and the Cathedral national of Washington, the Cathedral with San Francisco, the Grand Canyon, desert of the Negev in Israel and the Palace of the Crown Prince of the Japan. He received a prize of 500 Global of the United Nations and Courage of Conscience Award from the Abbey of peace, among others.
CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE
Designed in 1888, construction of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine started four years later and continued through fire, vandalism, and two world wars. The mother church of the New York's Episcopal Diocese, it was chartered to be a House of prayer for all peoples and a unifying centre of intellectual light and leadership. It remains unfinished, with the construction and restoration, a continuous process. It is almost two football length fields and maintains one of the most famous collections of tapestry in the world.
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