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Available as a limited edition double CD for $25 from Living Music only |
SOLSTICE GEMS is the limited-edition double-CD of the special NPR broadcast heard throughout the US during the month of December 2002.
The double album presents highlights from 20 years of Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebrations and features the Paul Winter Consort and their special guests Theresa Thomason, Pete Seeger, Susan Osborn, Davy Spillane, Noirin Ni Riain, Mickey Hart, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Luciana Souza, Oscar Castro-Neves, Arto Tuncboyaciyan and the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble.
SOLSTICE GEMS is available from Living Music only by mail order (toll free call in the USA 800-437 2281) and online.
TRACKING
[* Year of Performance]
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Disc I 1. Tomorrow is My Dancing Day [1991]* 3:04 (Trad. English; arr. Halley) Back Alley Music, ASCAP Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Rhonda Larson | flute Paul Halley | piano Russ Landau | bass Glen Velez | percussion Sammy Figueroa | percussion Gordon Gottlieb | drums 2. Kurski Funk [1991] 4:08 (Trad. Russian; arr. Pokrovsky; with new music by Halley, Castro-Neves, Winter) Living Earth Music, BMI; Umpawaug Music, ASCAP Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Rhonda Larson | flute Paul Halley | piano Russ Landau | bass Glen Velez | percussion Sammy Figueroa | percussion Gordon Gottlieb | drums The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble: Elena Sidorenko, Olga Uketcheva, Irene Shishkina, Evgeny Vedernikov, Dmitri Fokin, Sergei Zhirkov 3. In My Life [1980] 4:31 (Lennon, McCartney) Sony/ATV Music, ASCAP Susan Osborn | vocal Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Nancy Rumbel | English horn Jim Scott | guitar Paul Halley | organ Te d Moore | percussion The Consort's first Winter Solstice Celebration at the Cathedral took place on December 19, 1980. This song was performed in tribute to John Lennon who was murdered in New York 11 days earlier. 4. Canyon Chaconne [2000] 6:41 (Winter, Halley) Living Earth Music, BMI Paul Winter | soprano sax Dorothy Papadakos | organ 5. Singing to the Mountain [1999] 5:00 (Tuncboyaciyan) Svota Music, BMG, BMI Arto Tuncboyaciyan | sazabo and vocal Eugene Friesen | cello Jordan Rudess | keyboards 6. Dawnwalker [1997] 6:53 (Spillane) Burrenstone Music Davy Spillane | Uilleann pipes Paul Winter | soprano sax Paul Halley | organ 7. Hodie/Good People All [1987] 9:29 (Gregorian chant/Trad. Irish; arr. Halley) Back Alley Music, ASCAP Paul Winter | soprano sax Rhonda Larson | flute Eugene Friesen | cello Paul Halley | piano Russ Landau | bass Te d Mo or e | drums CafÈ | percussion 8. How Can I Keep from Singing [1987] 3:07 (Original music by Rev. R. Lowry; original words by Anne Warner, c. 1850; third verse by Doris Plenn; arr. Seeger) Sanga Music Inc. Pete Seeger | guitar, vocal For Leonard Peltier 9. The Sparrow [1988] 5:07 (Trad. American; arr. Lewis-Evans) Living Earth Music, BMI Kecia Lewis-Evans | vocal Paul Halley | piano Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Russ Landau | bass Te d Mo or e | drums CafÈ | percussion 10. Primavera [1998] 4:22 (Lyra, de Moraes) Tonga Editora Musical Ltda. Oscar Castro-Neves | guitar Paul Winter | soprano sax Paul Halley | organ TURNING POINT SUITE A Journey Through the Longest Night of the Year 11. Night Forest [1991] 2:12 (Winter, Friesen, Larson, Perchanok) Living Earth Music, BMI Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Rhonda Larson | flute Mark Perchanok | Heckelphone 12. River [1992] 1:46 (Trad. Russian; arr. Pokrovsky) Living Earth Music, BMI Elena Sidorenko, Maria Nefedova, and Irene Shickina of The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble 13. Storm [1999] :42 Gordon Gottlieb | timpani and surdos Dorothy Papadakos | organ Jamey Haddad | gongs Paul Winter | gongs 14. The Bells of Solstice [1994] 1:33 Bell-ringers around Cathedral with Paul Winter, soprano sax. Epic Song (Trad. Cossack; arr. Pokrovsky) Living Earth Music, BMI The men of The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble. 15. Return of the Sun [1990] 1:26 (Halley) Back Alley Music, ASCAP Paul Halley | organ Scott Sloan | Sun gong 16. Solstice Chant [1991] 2:11 (Halley) Back Alley Music, ASCAP Paul Winter | soprano sax Rhonda Larson | flute Eugene Friesen | cello Paul Halley | piano Dorothy Papadakos | organ Glen Velez | percussion Gordon Gottlieb | drums Sammy Figueroa | percussion Scott Sloan | Sun gong NÛirÌn NÌ Riain | vocal The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble |
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Disc II 1. Caravan at Dawn [1999] 6:27 (Winter, Tuncboyaciyan, Hart, Rudess) Living Earth Music, BMI Paul Winter | soprano sax Arto Tuncboyaciyan | vocal, percussion Mickey Hart | RAMU (Random Access Music Universe) Jordan Rudess | keyboards Var da n Gr i goryan | zurna 2. Luiza [2000] 2:53 (Jobim) Jobim Music, ASCAP Luciana Souza | vocal Paul Meyers | guitar Nilson Matta | bass Eugene Friesen | cello Paul Sullivan | piano Paul Winter | soprano sax 3. Icarus [1998] 3:14 (Towner) Distant Hills Music, ASCAP Oscar Castro-Neves | guitar Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Paul Halley | piano Eliot Wadopian | bass Gordon Gottlieb | percussion Jamey Haddad | percussion 4. Improvisations on an Appalachian Carol [1998] 5:09 (Trad. American; arr. Halley, Friesen) Back Alley Music, ASCAP; Onegin Music, BMI Paul Halley | piano Eugene Friesen | cello 5. Good Wish [1993] 4:17 (Music by Jan Harmon; words from the Carmina Gaedelica) Harmon Publishing Gordon Bok | guitar, vocal Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Glen Velez | percussion Dorothy Papadakos | organ 6. The Rain is Over and Gone [1994] 6:27 (Halley) Back Alley Music, ASCAP Theresa Thomason | vocal Paul Halley | piano Eliot Wadopian | bass Jamey Haddad | drums Paul Winter | soprano sax 7. Fanfare [1990] 1:07 (Trad. French; arr. Donders) Living Earth Music, BMI Dimitri Donders | French hunting horn 8. Christmas Day is Come [1991] 3:30 (Trad. Irish; arr. NÌ Riain) Living Earth Music, BMI NÛirÌn NÌ Riain | vocal Paul Halley | organ Paul Winter | soprano sax 9. Duet for the Longest Night [1990] 2:40 (Winter, Halley) Living Earth Music, BMI; Back Alley Music, ASCAP Paul Winter | soprano sax Paul Halley | organ 10. Down in Belgorod [1991] 3:39 (Trad. Russian; arr. Pokrovsky; with new music by Castro-Neves, Halley, Friesen, Winter) Living Earth Music, BMI Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Rhonda Larson | flute Paul Halley | piano Russ Landau | bass Glen Velez | percussion Sammy Figueroa | percussion Gordon Gottlieb | drums The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble 11. Silent Night [2000] 3:00 (Trad. German: arr. Halley, Winter) Back Alley Music, ASCAP; Living Earth Music, BMI Paul Sullivan | piano Arto Tuncboyaciyan | vocal (Armenian) Luciana Souza | vocal (Portuguese) Paul Winter | soprano sax Dorothy Papadakos | organ Eugene Friesen | cello 12. Song for the World [1987] 3:35 (Trad. Russian; new music by Halley) Back Alley Music, ASCAP The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble Paul Halley | piano Paul Winter | soprano sax Eugene Friesen | cello Russ Landau | bass Te d Mo or e | drums Glen Velez | percussion 13. Wolf Eyes [1991] 5:17 (Timber wolf, Winter, Darling) Living Earth Music, BMI Timber wolf | recorded in Minnesota by Fred Harrington Paul Winter | soprano sax Paul Halley | piano Eugene Friesen | cello Russ Landau | bass Glen Velez | percussion Sammy Figueroa | percussion Gordon Gottlieb | percussion 14. Minuit/Adeste Fideles [1991] 5:46 (Minuit; Trad. Guinean; words by Keita Fodeba; English words by Osborn & Guth) Umpawaug Music, ASCAP (Adeste Fideles; Trad. Carol; arr. Winter, Halley) Living Earth Music, BMI Paul Winter | vocal, soprano sax Paul Halley | vocal, piano Kecia Lewis-Evans | vocal Eugene Friesen | cello Rhonda Larson | flute Russ Landau | bass Mark Perchanok | Heckelphone Sammy Figueroa | percussion Glen Velez | percussion Gordon Gottlieb | percussion Dorothy Papadakos | organ |
The following tracks have been included on previous Living Music albums:
