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For the past eleven years, Winter has gathered musicians from around the world in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York to create inspired, spontaneous music at the spiritually charged moment of the summer solstice.
Join us to celebrate the Summer Solstice with a dawn concert featuring Brazilian singer Renato Braz at 4.30AM on June 23 2007 in New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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Paul Winter's
12th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration
4.30AM on June 23 2007in Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City
featuring Brazilian singer Renato Braz.
New music, in celebration of the dawning of summer, will come forth in Paul Winter's twelfth-annual Summer Solstice Sunrise event, at 4:30 A.M. on Saturday morning June 23, at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City. The Grammy-winning Paul Winter Consort will be joined by renowned young Brazilian singer/guitarist Renato Braz.
Paul Winter has long regarded the time of summer solstice as an auspicious opportunity for music-making. From the lineage of this event, over the past decade, has come a body of acclaimed live recordings, including Winter's 1999 Grammy-winning album Celtic Solstice, with Davy Spillane, Karan Casey, Joanie Madden, and Eileen Ivers; and his Grammy-nominated album Journey with the Sun, in 2001, featuring Mickey Hart, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Niamh Parsons, and Spillane.
Winter explains his affinity for this milestone, along with his aspiration for the event: "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."
"My dream, with this sunrise celebration, is to offer an experience of this resonance, through a deep-listening journey in the mystical ambience of these early morning hours within the awesome space and acoustics of this largest Gothic cathedral in the world. Our music begins in total darkness, and proceeds in a continuum, emanating from different places in the Cathedral. Gradually, as the great stained-glass windows slowly illuminate, the light joins the sound to carry us into the full dawning of the summer."
In the same way that these longest days of the year in June are the polar opposite to December's longest nights of the year, the simplicity of this all-acoustic Summer Solstice Sunrise Celebration is in total contrast to the highly theatrical Winter Solstice Celebrations that the Consort has presented at the Cathedral over the past 27 years. Winter welcomes this opportunity to present a more intimate and reflective musical journey, in which players and listeners alike can revel in the extraordinary acoustics of the 150-foot dome of the Cathedral. Winter calls it, "our most profound event of the year."
General admission tickets priced $35 are on sale now from TicketWeb
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is located at Amsterdam Ave. and West 112th St., Manhattan.
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