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Sunset on the Great Sand Dunes

from Crestone by Paul Winter

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    Grammy® Award-winning CRESTONE celebrates Colorado’s San Luis Valley, featuring Apache musician John-Carlos Perea, who sings in the Northern Plains Indian tradition; the voices of Mountain Bluebird, Red-winged Blackbird, Whooping Crane, Meadowlark, Sandhill Cranes, Coyotes, and Buffalo; and the Consort, including Paul Winter on soprano sax, Paul McCandless, oboe and bass clarinet; Eugene Friesen, cello; Glen Velez, percussion, Koji Nakamura, Japanese taiko drum.

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Tucked against the base of the Sangre de Cristos are the Great Sand Dunes, the tallest dunes in North America, 750 feet high and covering thirty square miles. For thousands of years, winds have blown across the San Luis Valley, picking up particles of dust and grains of sand from the Valley and the Rio Grande River. The winds then deposit the finely-ground pumice, ash, quartz, and lava at the eastern edge of the valley before they rise to cross the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Indian rice grass, blowout grass, scurf pea, and prairie sunflower are just a few of the twenty different species of plants growing directly on the Great Sand Dunes. They are a habitat for unusual plant communities and globally rare species like the slender spider flower. Six species of insects live here that are not found anywhere else in the world including the Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle. Mammals are an integral part of the landscape. Ord’s kangaroo rats, silky pocket mice, plains pocket mice, northern pocket gophers, mule deer, rabbits, ground squirrels, coyotes, pronghorn antelope, and chipmunks are just a few of the creatures cruising around the terrain, as well as several types of ducks and birds including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, owls, swifts, mountain bluebirds, and western tanagers.

The Great Sand Dunes were designated as our 36th National Monument, in 1932; and in 2000 the Monument was expanded into the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. This enlarged the area to 60 square miles or just over 38,660 acres. With this new addition the Park’s resources now include alpine lakes and tundra, six peaks over 13,000', ancient spruce and pine forests, as well as large stands of aspen and cottonwood, grasslands, and wetlands.

This music is intended as an evocation of the serenity and sublime beauty of the Dunes.

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from Crestone, released December 17, 2007
Written by: Don Grusin, Paul McCandless, Eugene Friesen, Paul Winter (Don Grusin Music, BMI; Bocal Music, ASCAP; Fiddletalk Music, BMI; Living Earth Music, BMI)

Paul McCandless, oboe
Eugene Friesen, cello
Paul Winter, soprano sax
Don Grusin, keyboard

Produced by Paul Winter and Peter May
Copyright © ℗ 2007 Earth Music Productions, LLC.
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Paul Winter is a seven-time Grammy-winning saxophonist, whose sextet was the first jazz group to perform at the White House in 1962. His second group, the Paul Winter Consort, interweaves sounds from the natural world with classical and ethnic traditions, and the spontaneous spirit of jazz. Their annual Winter Solstice Celebrations and Earth Mass are among the most popular events in New York. ... more

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