Celebration will take place at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 18 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th St., New York, NY.
A one-of-a-kind sunrise concert, presenting the premiere of new music by the Paul Winter Consort, along with traditional pieces from the Consort’s repertoire, featuring the soprano sax of Paul Winter, renowned cellist Eugene Friesen, double-reed wizard Paul McCandless on English horn and oboe, rising-star organist Ray Nagem on the Cathedral’s majestic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, drummer Abdel Salaam with his set of seven West African dun-dun drums, and percussionists Mathias Kunzli and Keita Ogawa, with an array of instruments including a set of giant Balinese gamelan gongs.
For more information about the Annual Summer Solstice Sunrise concert, please visit www.paulwinter.com.