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"The MISSA GAIA or EARTH
MASS was composed by Paul Winter in 1980. Since 1985 it has been
performed in the Cathedral of St John the Divine to celebrate the Feast
of St Francis on the first Sunday in October every year. Some 5,000
people flock to the Cathedral to participate in the Mass, accompanied by
their pets of all kinds, sizes, shapes and
smells. Even an elephant strolls into the huge Cathedral to join in this
celebration of the Earth, which is led by the Paul Winter Consort and
Friends. The voices of wolf, whale and loon join with those of the
extended Consort, several choirs, the Dean of the Cathedral, and world
religious leaders of all denominations in Paul Winter's joyous,
rhythmic, contemporary EARTH MASS in the world's largest Gothic
Cathedral.
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