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Paul Winter improvises wildlife melodies with his saxophone
A few years ago Paul Winter blew into his sax
ophone to trigger off the wolves in a lazy forest of
Northern Minnesota In answer, four wolves cried
out and gave four of the "blusiest howls of any
jazz musician." Winter says.
Gradually, through listening to many creatures
he began to realize that "the whole world is made
up of music makers besides humans." he says "I
wanted to explore them and bring the beauty of
their spirit and sound to the people.”
Winter probably could have made it as a
straight jazz musician, but the earth called him
and he felt obliged to answer. He has conversed
with coyotes, whales and just recently spotted
owls, which symbolize old growth forests
These wildlife are the focus of his new album
"Cathedral Forest." He has assimilated them so
closely with his saxophone that these special
creatures have probably come to think of him as a
mate.
Winter and his "Friends" create, or im
provise. the sounds they feel in nature The ver
satile saxophone player was formerly with the now
defunct improvisational jazz band Oregon, and
now plays with the Paul Winter Consort.
Most recently, the Paul Winter Consort was
called by the Cathedral Forest Action Group to
play at the Third Annual Memorial Gathering in
the Middle Santiam, a major section of the
Cathedral Forest.
Playing for the forest was a first for Winter.
After seeing the devastation of the dead, black
forests in Europe, he came back to the states wan
ting to prevent this from ever happening here.
Gary Snyder, an environmentalist poet and friend,
suggested he do a benefit for the Cathedral Forest.
Although Winter's home state of Conneticut
contains a wide diversity of deciduous trees, there
are no old growth, he says. He was "profoundly
shocked" to witness the clear cuts and slash burns
in the forest.
"It looks like war.” he says. "It looks like
devastation after war."
But it is important to realize that everyone
uses wood, hut that we must be appropriate in us
ing the wood, he adds.
He believes the world is still stuck in an infai
tile, futile situation where the personal greed of a
few overpowers the real needs of the forest, the
critters that live there.
"That's us.” he says. "Creed has got to be
seen as a disease," he adds, "a disease like a dru
addict addicted to power.
Winter says that, in a sense, profit motives are
an American religion.
“It could be that the ecology of the forest is
more important than the needs of the building in
dustry or the profits of the timber companies." he
says. "The nourishment from the wilderness will
be as important as the need to preserve the
ecology of this place."
He says the nourishment one gains from being
in the forest is like "taking a vitamin ‘W’ for
1
7 think we are very
lucky to live in these
times when these
emissaries, these
teachers of the
wilderness are coming
to us. Maybe they're be
ing sent, who knows, by
whoever is directing
this game, to re-a waken
us to our own nature
and therefore our own
consciousness to a
greater nature at a very
crucial time when we
have just about
destroyed our planet.'
- Paul Winter
wilderness.''
Winter's environmentalist days instinctually
began when he was a boy growing up in Connec
ticut When he went to the wilderness in his twen
ties “it was like a rediscovery of what I had loved
as a little kid that at the time you don't think
about at all. You love animals as all children, you
love being outside and going to camp
His first collaboration with music was in 1969
when he met a captive wolf brought to his
hometown that "totally turned me on to wolves."
he says. When he stared into the animal's eyes.
"he got me"
'Tve never forgotten since,” he adds. "It was
like the feeling of being with a very wise creature.
It is the feeling people have when they set? their
idol or their hero or some groat teacher. It is the
feeling of reverence that you are honored to be that
close to that creature."
He believes it is a great gift that these wise
creatures are being brought into people's con
sciousness at this time.
"I think we are very lucky to live in these
times when these emissaries, these teachers of the
wilderness are coming to us,” he says.
"Maybe they're being sent, who knows, by
whoever is directing this game, to re awaken us to
our own nature and therefore our conciousness to
a greater nature at a very crucial time when we
have just abuot destroyed our planet. "
He believes that the only way we can survive
on the planet is to reconnect with nature
"We can’t do it by any new philosophy, new
technology or new theology.” he says. We must
listen and learn from these elders and give voice
together everyday." he adds.
As out! of his songs based on a West African
village song says "Our voices wil blend when we
touch common ground."
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CFAG works to preserve the wilderness
Mary Beth Nearing was more than pleased
with the gathering she and the Cathedral
Forest Action Group put together for May
24-26.
They were succesful in getting more than
600 people to drive many miles from home
through 17 miles of dirt road to see the
Cathedral Forest in its extreme contrast:
Douglas firs more than 300 hundred years old
bordered by patches of severed and wasted
clear cut.
They earned 65,500 through donations,
netting $1,600 after costs. The success shows
that awareness of the old growth issue is
' "picking up steam," Nearing says.
CFAG first formed in the spring of 1964 to
educate the public about old growth in na
tional forests, specifically the Cathedral Forest
which stretchs from the Northern Redwoods in
California to Alaska; one of the last remaining
old growth forest in the world.
CFAG has had direct confrontations with
the companies that log there through direct ac
tion and civil disobedience. The direct action
has led to arrests and court cases, some of
which have been succesfully overturned. Near
ing says. The group has grown from a dozen
to more than 50 active and 500 supportive
members.
The court cases and media attention have
helped to educate people on the old growth
issue, which is one of the main goals of
CFAG. Nearing says.
Some of CFAG's specific goals are: to
employ a second growth economy, to preserve
old growth for the health and value of humans
and to allow the "critters that depend upon
the trees" to exist. Nearing says.
Recently. CFAG has been focusing on
educating the public through presentations in
the school system.
The money earned from the gathering will
go toward the presentations and impending
court debts. Nearing says.
Story by Shun non Kelley
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