Peter Mayer's "Midwinter"

[pegkerr]

I am playing Peter Mayer's newly released CD Midwinter, which I have decided is the best possible gift EVAH for someone with seasonal affective disorder. Many of the songs are about overcoming the oppression from the darkness in winter with warmth from friends, from spirituality, and from light. Here's a good example:

Green [set to the French carol tune "Besancon"]

When winter's gray is on the sky
Rust upon the leaves that lie
Red on the last few berries clinging
Brown on the branch where the bitter wind's singing
Even when white obscures the scene
Still in winter there is green

Waving defiant pine tree boughs
Cedar needles, stubborn and proud
Hiding inside the seeds of summer
And deep in the root where it sleeps under cover
Patiently waiting there unseen
In the winter, there is green

Death may raise its voice today
O, but Life will have its say
Speaking in lovers and children
In poets' pens and philosophers' visions
Life is a planet's daring dream
Earth's devotion, spoken in green

So keep it in your winter store
Hang its garland 'round the door
Grant to your heart its hopeful promise
Fashion a wreath for its blessing upon us
Winter brings browns and grays indeed
But when it comes, remember green

The whole album is lovely. Highly recommended. You can hear a portion of this song at CD Baby here and buy it here.

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Re: Yum!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I am absolutely delighted to see you here. Welcome!

Peter Mayer is a local singer--I believe he lives in Stillwater??? I have heard him in concert at the Cedar Riverside, and he is delightful. I was thinking, listening to the album again today, that the first cut, "Stables" might, after all, be a lovely piece to do for an offertory or something. "Green" has a familiar tune, and would be easy to do, too, although the theology is a little abstract.

If you get the album, you won't regret it, and I'm sure you won't regret getting involved in LiveJournal.