April 22, 2023
7:30pm EDT
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
The Paul Winter Consort will be returning to the New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine for their first concert there in three years. This will also be their first-ever Earth Day Celebration at the Cathedral.
It will be an intimate, acoustic concert, under the great 150-foot dome of the Cathedral, which has been extensively refurbished during the pandemic. This is the part of the Cathedral that has the most magical acoustics.
The Consort players will be cellist Eugene Friesen, pianist Henrique Eisenmann, Ray Nagem on the Cathedral organ, and Paul Winter on the soprano sax.
The program, on the theme of “This Glorious Earth,” will include a series of new compositions, along with music from Winter's 45 years of exploring how to celebrate the land, the sea, and the creatures and cultures of the whole Earth. That era in his life began one night in May of 1968 when he first heard the songs of the humpback whale, in a lecture by biologist Roger Payne at Rockefeller University in New York.
This event will be the launching prelude for Winter's first podcast, entitled “This Glorious Earth,” which will be aired weekly on following Saturdays throughout the spring.
Tickets are $40 for General Admission and $50 for Preferred Seating.