WPI Students Sing on Paul Winter Consort’s Grammy-winning Album

WORCESTER, MA — Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
student singers are featured on a CD that won a Grammy Award
Sunday, Feb. 13. The WPI Festival Chorus, which also includes
alumni and faculty, was invited last year by New Age musician Paul
Winter to sing on a track of his latest album, “Miho: Journey to
the Mountain.” This CD, which features the WPI student singers
listed below, won the Grammy for “Best New Age Album” at the 53rd
Grammy Awards ceremony, broadcast on CBS.

Winter recorded the song “Remembering” (track 19) last spring on
the WPI campus. WPI choral director John Delorey describes the song
as a “quiet, yet joyful composition, with the chorus singing a
serene tune, accompanied by cello, piano, and Paul Winter on
soprano saxophone.” In the CD liner notes, all of the WPI Festival
Chorus members are listed individually and named collectively as
the “Chorus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.”

“This is such an exciting time for all of the singers,” said
Delorey, after the Grammy win was announced. “The Grammy Award puts
into perspective all of the time and effort we have put into the
WPI choral program over the past 10 years. Now, the students can’t
wait to go back to New York City this fall to sing again with Paul,
and to hopefully have him perform with WPI students at Mechanics
Hall soon thereafter.”