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FURTHER MILESTONES
In the Career of Paul Winter

BEGINNINGS | 1960's | 1970's | 1980's | 1990's | 2000

1970'S

1970: ROAD album recorded live at Royce Hall, UCLA and the Eastman School of Music, produced by Phil Ramone.

1971: Consort opens for Procol Harum at Fillmore East in New York; astronauts of Apollo XV take Consort's ROAD album to the moon, naming two newly-discovered craters after the album's songs 'Icarus' and 'Ghost Beads'.

1972: ICARUS album released by Epic, described by its producer, Beatles' mentor George Martin, as "the finest album I ever made".

1973: Paul plays to whales for the first time, with Greenpeace Expedition in North Pacific; newcomer Bruce Springsteen opens for Consort at 'My Father's Place' on Long Island.

1974: Winter produces 'The Charles Ives Show' at the Ives' home in Redding, Connecticut, in celebration of the composer's 100th birthday; Consort co-billed with new Miles Davis electric band at Village East, New York.

1976: Living Music Foundation formed, committed "to exploring and implementing ways in which music can be used to enrich the lives of human beings, and awaken a spirit of involvement in the preservation of wildlife and the natural environments of the Earth."

1977: Consort plays in Washington as part of inauguration celebration for Jimmy Carter; Paul leads music-making whale-watching expedition in Baja California.

1978: COMMON GROUND released, featuring the voices of Whale, Wolf and Eagle; Consort records live album, TURTLE ISLAND, with poet Gary Snyder.

1980's

1980: As part of his vision to bridge with music the gap between spirituality and ecology, The Very Reverend James Parks Morton invites Paul Winter and members of his Consort to become artists-in-residence at the world's largest Gothic cathedral, St. John the Divine, in New York. Paul Winter founds the Living Music record label with CALLINGS, a celebration of the ocean realm, as its first release. The label's primary intentions are to strive towards timeless music; to record in natural acoustic spaces; and to create a catalogue which embraces the vital traditions of music the label's musicians revere, from Bach to Africa, and cello to wolves.

1981: The MISSA GAIA, an ecological and ecumenical Mass, is premiered in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Mother's Day, 10 May, celebrating Mother Earth, with a sermon by David Brower, founder and president of Friends of the Earth. It is recorded later in the year.

1982

1980's (cont.)

1982: Paul Winter is awarded the Joseph Wood Krutch Medal from the Humane Society of the United States in recognition of his encouraging through music "a deep sense of reverence and wonder for all animals".

1983: The National Association of Independent Record Distributors and Manufacturers (NAIRD) votes SUN SINGER the Best Jazz Album of the Year. The Connecticut Fund for the Environment presents Winter with a Special Award for Service to the Environment.

1984: Winter makes the first of 15 trips to the then Soviet Union. The Whale Center presents Winter with an Award for Environment Work. In recognition of his work as musical ambassador for the world's endangered species, Paul Winter receives the Global 500 Award and an Award of Excellence from the United Nations Environment Program and The Genesis Award. CONCERT FOR THE EARTH, performed by the Paul Winter Consort in the General Assembly as the centerpiece for the official observance of World Environment Day, becomes the first jazz album ever recorded in the United Nations.

1985: Paul Winter and his friend, the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, perform together on tour in the USA. Winter is featured in the September PBS special of the Beyond War satellite 'space bridge' awards program, playing from San Francisco with a chorus singing simultaneously from Moscow. The Delta Society nominates Paul Winter for the Delta Media Award.

1986: The album CANYON is nominated for a Grammy Award. The CANYON CONSORT documentary of the making of the album wins three film festival awards, including the best-of-show honors at the Padua Film Festival in Italy. Paul Winter, marine biologist Roger Payne and Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame, collaborators on the album WHALES ALIVE! , take the songs of the humpback whales to the countries which make up the then Soviet Union. The ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) presents Winter with an Award for Service to Animals.

1987: WHALES ALIVE! receives a Grammy nomination for the best spoken-word album, as well as awards from the World Wildlife Fund and the Fund for Animals.

1988: Paul Winter receives the Connecticut Commission of the Arts Award. EARTHBEAT, the first album of original music created and recorded by Russians and Americans together, is nominated for a Grammy Award. The Paul Winter Consort tours the album in 25 cities across the USA with the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble.

1989: Paul Winter's album WOLF EYES: A RETROSPECTIVE, is nominated for a Grammy Award.

1990's