{"id":7442,"date":"2010-04-23T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2013-09-11T10:41:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:41:36","slug":"enraptured-in-the-harmonies-of-winters-bittersweet-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=7442","title":{"rendered":"Enraptured in the Harmonies of Winters’ Bittersweet Song."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cellist Stephanie Winters<\/a> describes the sound of her 2004 debut album, Through the Storm<\/em><\/a>, rereleased in an expanded version last year, as “beautiful sadness.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In Portuguese the word is saudade<\/em>\u2014a sadness that makes one want to live again. In a spiritual sense this recording is my “blues”. I do not use that word to describe a musical style, but to suggest the transcendent honesty which musical expression enables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"seatedbywindow-low\"<\/a>Indeed, Winters, right, through often bottomless multitracking, saturates the newly added “Mercy Street,” made famous by Peter Gabriel; her vision of Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman”; or Thomas Dorsey’s renowned gospel standard, “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” with a somber cry. The whole work breathes deep mood, yet not melancholy. In a way, it feels like a film, a wordless one, perhaps, telling a story of love found, made, lost, and unforgotten.<\/p>\n

Winters has performed and recorded with Richie Havens, Enya, Corrine Bailey Rae, Anne Murray, Paula Cole, and the O’Jays, among many others.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Winters is the guest today on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, April 23, at 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n

You can hear her ideas and music by tuning in at 2 pm ET. If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, check out our live stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, dig into our archives<\/a> for up to 90 days after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cellist Stephanie Winters describes the sound of her 2004 debut album, Through the Storm, rereleased in an expanded version last year, as “beautiful sadness.” In Portuguese the word is saudade\u2014a sadness that makes one want to live again. In a spiritual sense this recording is my “blues”. I do not use that word to describe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,51,69,3,47,43,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7452,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}