Paul Winter Consort - 42nd year of the Solstice Concerts - - an offering of a video retrospective

Beloved Friends,

To add to our honoring of the Earth and the Winter Solstice, each year I feel called by the Paul Winter Solstice Celebration.

The music that is created by Paul Winter and the musicians (and dancers) is for me an expression of joy, and of the deep listening inner and outer, by which which beautiful music is created.  This music is devoted to and comes from reverence for the Earth and her creatures, from the seeking of the joining with one another as people in unity, and in harmony and song.  Exploring and expressing music of people from many cultures and nationalities.  Expressed with passion and sublime presence by wonderful musicians, joining together in the resonance of the Cathedral (the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City).

This year (with no live concert again due to the pandemic), instead there is an on-demand compilation drawn from the 40 years of the Winter Solstice Concerts.

Michaela and I saw some of it tonight, and I am so deeply moved.  So for anyone who may wish, here is the link to it.  (Hearing Paul Winter playing Sun Singer in this, was extraordinary in how I felt him listening and creating).

Solstice Saga: A Video Retrospective

There is a cost ($20 +processing fee), though they also say: "Please note: If you have been hard hit by the pandemic and need a discounted ticket, be in touch with us via the contact form on the contact page."

Included also are two additional retrospective concert videos: Winter Solstice, The Early Years: Volume 1, and Everybody Under the Sun: Voices of Solstice Volume 1.

Blessings to each of you, on this day, and night, of Solstice. 

May the light within us rise.

To close, below are the words from a song from that concert, sung every year,

With love and deep joy: at the sound of the Universe, expressed through the heart, in words and in music.. shared by people seeking unity, with all that is, and all that we are part of on beautiful illumined Earth.

Robert

 

Sound Over All Waters

“A Christmas Carmen” by John Greenleaf Whittier; music by Paul Halley, sung by Theresa Thomason

The chorus of voices, the clasping of hands;
Sing hymns that were sung by the stars of the morn,
Sing songs of the angels when Jesus was born;
With glad jubilations bring hope to the nations: 

The dark night is ending and dawn has begun.
Arise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun.
All speech flows to music, all hearts beat as one.
The dark night is ending, and dawn has begun. 

Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace,
East, west, north and south, let the long quarrels cease;
Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,
Sing of glory to God, and of good will to man!
Joining in chorus, the heavens bend o’er us: 

The dark night is ending and dawn has begun.
Arise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun.
All speech flows to music, all hearts beat as one.
The dark night is ending, and dawn has begun.