Silver Solstice
Paul Winter Consort
Released 2005
Run Time: Disc 1 – 69 minutes 48 seconds; Disc 2 – 72 minutes 50 seconds
Produced by: Paul Winter and Dixon Van Winkle
©℗2005 Earth Music Productions, LLC
Since 1980, the Grammy® Award-winning Paul Winter Consort has celebrated the Winter Solstice, the seasonal rite of passage, with a musical feast from the cornucopia of cultures and creatures of the world, at thee Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. To commemorate their 25th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, Living Music released a box-set entitled Silver Solstice, featuring the Consort with a host of special guests. The album includes the entire performance of the 25th celebration, plus 10 tracks from previous years’ solstice events. The box-set presents the 142 minutes of music on 2 stereo CDs, and also in Surround Sound on one bonus DVD-Audio disc.
For three decades, Paul Winter has put forth his musical vision of the community of the Earth, beginning with his landmark album COMMON GROUND in the 1970s. Silver Solstice embraces the musical traditions of many cultures, and includes voices from what Winter calls “the greater symphony of the Earth” – whale, wolf and uirapuru (the musical wren of the Amazon rainforest) – a trilogy of voices representing the sea, the land, and the air.
The special guests on Silver Solstice include gospel singer Theresa Thomason, Brazilian diva Luciana Souza, sean nos (old style) Celtic singer Noirin Ni Riain, Armenian singer and percussionist Arto Tuncboyacian, Brazilian guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves, Irish Uillean piper Davy Spillane, Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, mbira master Chris Berry, and the nine-voice Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble from Russia.
“For the last 25 years, Paul Winter a been performing winter solstice shows in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. By and large, this is where he has stretched his music, working with virtuoso players from across the musical spectrum, but especially world music. Silver Solstice is the definitive document of this annual event. In addition to the two main discs, there is also a DVD-Audio disc with 5.1 surround mixes that puts you in the middle of the Cathedral.”
– John Diliberto
Performers
Paul Winter | soprano sax
Eugene Friesen | cello
Rhonda Larson | flute
Paul Halley | keys
Eliot Wadopian | bass
Russ Landau | bass
Gordon Gottlieb | percussion
Sammy Figueroa | percussion
Glen Velez | percussion
Davy Spillane | Uillean pipes
Paul Sullivan | keys
Theresa Thomason |voice
Oscar Castro-Neves | guitar
Tim Brumfield | organ
Jamey Haddad | drums
Bill Cahn | percussion
Arto Tunçboyacıyan | voice, szabo, percussion
Damian Draghici | panflute
Chris Berry | mbira, voice, percussion
Nóirín Ní Riain | voice, shruti box
Dorothy Papadakos | organ
Mark Perchanok | heckelphone
Scott Sloan | sun gong
Satoshi Takeishi | percussion
Mickey Hart | RAMU
Vardan Grigoryan | zurna
Luciana Souza | voice
Paul Meyers | guitar
Nilson Matta | bass
Oscar Castro-Neves | guitar
Kecia Lewis-Evans | voice
Susan Osborn | voice
Nancy Rumbel | English horn
Jim Scott | guitar
Ted Moore | percussion
Jordan Rudess | keys
Cafe | percussion
Pete Seeger | guitar, voice
Gordon Bok | guitar, voice
Dimitri Donders | French hunting horn
The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble: Maria Nefedova, Olga Yukecheva, Marina Cherkashina, Svetlana Dorokhova, Irina Shiskina, Svetlana Sorokina Subbotina, Evgeny Kharlamov, Mikhail Korzin, Andrei Samsonov, Dmitri Pokrovsky, Alexander Danilov, Elena Sidorenko, Sergei Zhirkov, Tamara Smyslova, Arthur Partosh, Anna Konukhova, Andrei Kotov, Nini Savistkaya, Dmitri Fokin, Vladimir Teplov, Irina Ponomaryova, Sergei Grigoriev
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