Album Notes

What Is Meditations for a New Year’s Day? Meditations for a New Year’s Day is many things to many people. It is evocative piano music for any time of year. It is an interfaith experience of the winter holidays, combining Christmas, Chanukah and music of many cultures in a single celebration. It is familiar tunes like What Child Is This? and Auld Lang Syne, and more obscure songs like the Bolivian Navidava Puri Nihuaand the Sephardic Ocho Kandelikas. It provides a meditative atmosphere for walking a labyrinth, for healing work, for any kind of reflection. It is folk music in the spirit of Ralph Vaughn Williams and Aaron Copland, with virtuoso piano arrangements. It also has moments of Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, David Darling, Jacquline Schwab, J. S. Bach and Claude Debussy. It is haunting and joyful, tender and tempestuous and, at times, silly. Meditations for a New Year’s Day is unique. Complete Playlist of Songs heard in Meditations for a New Year’s Day LABYRINTH