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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.

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Music for a Labyrinth, and for the season By Jane Eklund The music is lovely and haunting, both new and familiar a reinvention of memory or, as in a labyrinth, a transformation of memory. It s just right of the season, with its mixture of Christmas, Chanukah, and Solstice music, and its New Year s theme of death and rebirth. Imagine music that takes the shape, not of a maze, that tricky quagmire, but a labyrinth, a path that leads you inevitably toward a center, and then just as inevitably out. Mazes lose you, Eve Kodiak writes in the liner notes to her new CD. Labyrinths help you find your way. Kodiak, a musician and kinesiologist from Temple, NH, found her way to a new project when she improvised on the piano last New Year s Eve. She was on stage at the Peterborough Town House, where the famous Chartres labyrinth had been recreated on the floor of the meeting hall. I played holiday tunes and wove them together, and there was something very profound about it, she remembers. The music, the labyrinth, the people walking contemplatively through it, the light of dusk filtering through the tall windows, transformed the hall into a sacred space. Kodiak returned the following day and played some more. And then, over the next 10 months, she put together 75 minutes of music arranged in the shape of a labyrinth. The result, a CD called Meditations for a New Year s Day: Reflections on Christmas, Chanukah, and the Solstice has just been released. --From the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Dec. 7, 2006

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Elmo's Christmas Countdown: There's a miracle on Sesame Street in this special holiday tale. Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and their new friend Stiller the Elf (voice of Ben Stiller) are going to count down to Christmas with the Christmas Counter-Downer. But all the counting boxes have gone missing and Christmas may never come again! Can Elmo, Abby and Stiller the Elf save Christmas? With the help of very special guests Sheryl Crow, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley, Ty Pennington, Steve Schirripa, Tony Sirico, and Kevin James (as Santa Claus), Elmo and friends will learn to believe in Christmas miracles. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street: It's Christmas Eve on Sesame Street and everyone is joining in the excitement – until a question from Oscar throws Big Bird into a tailspin. "How does a guy like Santa Claus, who's built like a dump truck, come down all those skinny little chimneys?" Oscar asks. Suddenly Big Bird is worried that if he can't answer the question, there won’t be any presents on Christmas! With the help of all his Sesame Street friends, Big Bird attempts to solve the mystery. But in the process, he discovers that the true miracle of Christmas isn't the presents under the tree, but the spirit of loving and sharing.