Concert Dates
- Sat Jun 22 2013Paul Winter, and a unique "summer consort":
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, US
Paul Winter’s 18th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration
June 22, 2013, 4:30 a.m
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047, Amsterdam Avenue., Manhattan, NY 10025
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$35 general admission ⁕ solsticeconcert.com or 866 811 4111
Greet the dawn of the longest day of the year with a one-of-a-kind experience, with new music by a unique “summer consort”.
Featuring the soprano sax of Paul Winter, renowned French horn soloist John Clark, long-time Winter Consort cellist Eugene Friesen, tuba master Marcus Rojas, the Cathedral’s titanic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ played by Tim Brumfield, along with a coterie of percussionists.
A one-of-a-kind experience, with new music by a unique “summer consort”. featuring the soprano sax of Paul Winter, renowned French horn soloist John Clark, long-time Winter Consort cellist Eugene Friesen, tuba master Marcus Rojas, the Cathedral’s titanic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ played by Tim Brumfield, along with a coterie of percussionists.
As part of our annual solstice cycle, we’ll soon celebrate the first sunrise of summer within the vast acoustics of the world’s largest cathedral, New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Beginning in complete darkness, musicians surrounding the audience play as the cathedral’s stained-glass windows gradually illuminate to usher in the longest day of the year.
For our 18th annual celebration, we will be creating a new stage set and audience configuration. The audience will be seated in concentric circles under the great dome, surrounded by the musicians and instruments, including our nine huge Balinese Gamelan gongs, and other large percussion instruments.
Summer Solstice is one of the great turning points of the year, when the sun is at its peak and the days abound with the promise of life’s fullness. It is a serenely powerful time in which the beauty of the natural world can infuse our spirit, bring us alive to the present, and perhaps awaken a deeper sense of relatedness to the community of life, to the Earth, and to the cosmos.
