The Paul Winter Summer Solstice Celebration welcomes the dawn of the longest northern day through the Rose Window at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.
29th Paul Winter Summer Solstice Celebration 2024
The 29th Paul Winter Summer Solstice Celebration 2024 is a memorable sunrise jazz concert titled “Adventures in the Universe,” inspired by Charles Ive’s “Universe Symphony;” at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 4:30am. You get to watch the giant rose window light up with the dawn. From $45.
Some people take a yoga mat. That’s a beautiful way to celebrate the dawn.
Paul Winter Summer Solstice Celebration
The celebration is a memorable concert that begins in the dark at 4:30 am, continues as dawn breaks through the Cathedral’s Great Rose Window, and ends at 6 am in the light of morning.
Summer solstice, or midsummer, is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The peak of summer follows soon after. The Summer Solstice Celebration is on the weekend nearest the solstice. This is one of New York City’s great mystical experiences. The Great Rose Window is forty feet wide with over ten thousand pieces of glass. It is the third largest rose window in the world.
Paul Winter
Paul Winter is a legendary, multi-Grammy Award-winning, jazz saxophone player.
Right out of college, his band toured Latin America as cultural ambassadors for the U.S. State Department. The band was the first jazz band to play at the White House. That was during the Kennedy years. Disillusioned by the Kennedy assassination, Winter went back to Brazil and played with the people who created bossa nova in the mid-1960s.
Winter was one of the early advocates of World Music, the music of our many human cultures. Later Winter helped develop the Earth music category. Paul Winter’s trajectory has been from jazz to the world to the earth. Winter founded his current band, The Paul Winter Consort in 1968. It carries on today with various players.
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