Missa  Gaia

Earth  Mass

Paul Winter Consort

Cathedral  of  St.  John  the  Divine

A Mass in celebration of Mother Earth, recorded live in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Grand Canyon. Integrating world music with songs from the wild to celebrate the whole earth as a sacred space, the MISSA GAIA is performed annually on the first Sunday in October in the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York. It was commissioned by the Dean of the Cathedral as a contemporary ecumencial Mass.

Recorded in the Grand Canyon and during two performances in the Cathedral, the album of this popular contemporary Mass for the Earth features the Paul Winter Consort, Susan Osborn, the voices of wolf, whale, eagle, harp seal, Amazonian musical wren, Russian loon, and the choruses of the Cathedral.

Produced by: Paul Winter, Oscar Castro-Neves, Chris Brown

Paul Winter - soprano sax

Nancy Rumbel - oboe and English horn

Eugene Friesen - cello

Jim Scott - classical and 12-string guitar

Susan Osborn - voice

Paul Halley - organ and piano

Ted Moore - percussion

Gordon Johnson - bass

Jim Saporito - percussion

Guilherme Franco - percussion

Phil Markowitz - piano on 'Beatitudes'

1982

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYGTZp-tqLo