I’ve been obsessively listening to “The Hounds of Winter,” one of the tracks on “If on a Winter’s Night,” Sting’s latest CD, a winter-themed album. The song isn’t new—it first came out more than a decade ago on Sting’s Mercury Falling—but it’s a superb new arrangement that pulls several excellent instrumentalists into the mix, including people like classical cellist Vincent Ségal and jazz/world percussionist Cyro Baptista. On that track there’s also Kathryn Tickell, a traditional violinist from Sting’s hometown of Newcastle, England, whose wonderfully haunting repeating line of fourths and octaves against Julian Sutton’s moaning Melodeon sounds like the “lonesome, lonesome sound” of the hounds of the song’s lyrics. The album has a whole range of pieces that relate somehow to winter, including an arrangement of Schubert’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” (from Winterreise), English carols like “Balulalow,” and an arrangement of a Bach melody from one of the cello suites, set to new words by Sting.

Serial obsessions are a hallmark of Sting’s career. Classical musicians and audiences took notice when Songs from the Labyrinth came out in 2006—here, Sting sang Dowland songs with lutenist Edim Karamazov. (Sting also took up the lute-playing for the project.) He’s nothing if not prolific, and lately he’s dipped into several projects, the first being a film whose subject is Robert and Clara Schumann, and the second being the “Winter’s Night” album. Just before his December appearances in New York in connection with both those projects, and the premiere of Great Performances’ Sting: A Winter’s Night broadcast premiere on Thanksgiving evening, he spoke to SundayArts blogger Jennifer Melick.

I’m curious to know about some of the musical choices you have made—there was Dowland several years back, who’s sometimes referred to as the melancholy madrigalist, and then Robert Schumann, who struggled with his own difficulties, his mental illness. And now, with “If on a Winter’s Night” you’ve got this new album with a winter theme—the coldest, darkest season. Does melancholy in general interest you? How did you put together this latest album?

Sting: Well, I did a lot of research with my producer, Bob Sadin, into the music of winter. And I looked at songs from many centuries, of many genres—classical songs and folksongs and sacred music, and some modern song. I suppose I was looking for my resonance, my ambivalence of feelings about the season: its cold, its discomfort, its bleak, profound beauty. But also its magic. So I was looking for magical stories. So I think it is the season of the imagination. And it’s a very very rich season.

“If on a Winter’s Night” is definitely not a religious or “Christmas” album, but there are several songs on it— “Balulalow” and “Lo, How a Rose” for instance—that are traditionally sung at Christmastime. How important is keeping those sorts of traditions alive? (Below you can listen to a 30 second sample of “The Hounds of Winter.”

Sting: I avoided “Frosty the Snowman” and “Jingle Bells” and … things that have become just bromides, or just overused symbols. I was looking for a more spiritual approach to the season, and that perhaps more familiar songs would give us. If “Lo, How a Rose,” maybe a lot of people know “Lo, How a Rose,” but a lot of people don’t. A lot of people hearing this album, have never heard these songs. So from a pop audience’s point of view, these songs are very obscure. The cognoscenti have heard of Peter Warlock but most people have no idea.

Listen to part of “Hounds of Winter”:

While you’re here in New York you’ll be performing in one large venue—the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on December 8 and 9—and one very small one—a private event at the Greene Space on December 3 that will be streamed live (at wnyc.org/thegreenespace and wqxr.org). Is there an intimacy that you try for, regardless of the style of music or how big or small the space is?

Sting: I think variety is important. Not only in terms of music and style of music and interpretation, but also the type of venues you play. For me, success is having the freedom to explore new territory and making that territory, as far as possible, my own.

The “winter” album and the DVD film Twin Spirits both came out this fall. How did you end up doing a project about the music and lives of Robert and Clara Schumann?

Sting: I knew a little about Schumann before I did Twin Spirits, which we started about five years ago. But I knew nothing of Clara Schumann. I knew nothing of her music, which I suppose indicates a sort of misogyny of music—you know, because she’s a woman, you don’t need to listen to her. But what’s interesting about this production is that the music is placed alongside her husband’s and treated equally, and she more than stands up to the comparison. I think her work is fantastic. Given that she was also raising a family and having a concert career at the same time, while Robert was languishing. It’s really her story.

What’s neat about the Twin Spirits film is that you and your wife, Trudie Styler, are both connected with it—she reads Clara letters and you read Robert’s. I guess this is somewhat of a rare opportunity for the two of you to work together.

Sting: Yes, it is. It was originally the Royal Opera House’s idea that we read these letters, and I was a little reticent at first, but they said, oh, just read the letters, and the story will tell itself. And of course it does, so my job in playing Robert was not necessarily to emote or “act” the part, because I think a lot of his struggle was internal. So I really allowed the letters to tell the story and internalized the emotions as much as possible. When we did it live, Alfred Brendel came backstage, and he said, you know, you were the first person who hasn’t overacted this role, and thank you for that. I was very flattered.

The Twin Spirits Schumann film project is really a step in a different direction for you. Do you think about the broader sort of pop audience reacts to some of these sort of extracurricular” or different projects, for lack of a better word?

Sting: It’s important for me not to underestimate the people who listen to my records. I imagine they are as curious, and indeed about the world, as I am. And basically I am there to express my enthusiasm for where my curiosity leads me. I am led by curiosity more than anything else, more than even commercial concerns, I am led by curiosity. My curiosity has coincided largely with popular taste for many years, so I have to trust my instincts.

You perform in Twin Spirits with actor Derek Jacobi, baritone Simon Keenlyside, violinist Sergej Krylov, pianist Iain Burnside, soprano Rebecca Evans, cellist Natalie Clein, and pianist Natasha Paremski Watching your conversations on the Twin Spirits supplementary DVD with them and with the director, John Caird, I was struck by how much you seem ask questions, and appear to be in a listening and learning type of mode.

Sting: I am the eternal student—from Chekhov.

When you’re in New York, what do you like to do for culture?

Sting: I go to the theater, to see a show, to a concert, to restaurants and to the cinema. The last show I saw was South Pacific. Which I adored. I was very shocked by the production, how the racism had been excised from the movie. And I was very shocked to see that it was back. It’s quite a piece of theater, to realize that this girl who you’ve been sort of rooting for suddenly reveals herself, it’s quite shocking. A much heavier piece than the movie.

Photo by Clive Barda/ DG courtesy of Deutsche Grammophone.

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“Sting: A Winter’s Night…” captures the artist in the evocative setting of one of England’s most famous cathedrals. Standing on a peninsula overlooking the River Wear in County Durham, the 1,000 year-old UNESCO world heritage building is an iconic landmark of Northern England. Inside, the architecture and atmosphere are equally as inspiring, and it is in this setting that Sting is joined by guest musicians, including local Newcastle artists Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian pipes and fiddle), Peter Tickell (fiddle) and Julian Sutton (Melodeon). Esteemed performers from around the world also include Dominic Miller (guitar), Vincent Ségal (cello), Scottish harpist Mary MacMaster, Ira Coleman (bass), Chris Gecker (trumpet), David Mansfield (violin and mandolin), Cyro Baptista, Bashiri Johnson and Rhani Krija (percussion), and vocalists Laila Biali, Lisa Fischer, Jo Lawry and Steven Santoro. Producer Robert Sadin conducts an ensemble of 35 musicians, which includes additional string and brass sections.

Featuring traditional music of the British Isles as its starting point, Sting and guest musicians interpret stirring, folk-based melodies including “The Snow it Melts the Soonest” (traditional Newcastle ballad), “Soul Cake” (traditional English “begging” song), “Christmas at Sea” (traditional Scottish song), “Gabriel’s Message” (14th century carol), “Balulalow” (lullaby by Peter Warlock) and “Now Winter Comes Slowly” (Henry Purcell). Two of Sting’s own compositions are also featured: “Lullaby for an Anxious Child” and “The Hounds of Winter,” which originally appeared on his previous release Mercury Falling. “Winter is a season I’ve always had an affinity for,” says Sting. “It’s certainly rich in terms of inspiration and materials.”

Born a milkman’s son in Newcastle, England, Sting met Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers, who formed The Police in 1977. The band quickly became a success in both the U.S. and the UK, scoring several No. 1 hits including Roxanne, Every Breath you Take, King of Pain and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic. The Police earned five Grammy Awards and two Brits, and in 2003, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. With the release of Dream of the Blue Turtles in 1985, followed by Bring on the Night, Nothing Like the Sun, The Soul Cages, Ten Summoner’s Tales, Mercury Falling, Brand New Day, All This Time, Sacred Love and Songs from the Labyrinth, Sting has evolved into one of the world’s most distinctive and highly-respected solo performers, collecting an additional 11 Grammy Awards, two Brits, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, three Oscar nominations, Billboard Magazine’s Century Award and MusiCares Person of the Year for 2004.

A production of Graying & Balding, Inc., in association with Universal Music Classical Management & Productions (UMCMP) and THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG, the production is directed by the Emmy Award-winning team Jim Gable and Ann Kim. A DVD of the program will be released November 24 on Deutsche Grammophon, featuring additional performances and behind-the-scenes footage documenting the concert’s genesis.

Great Performances is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Vivian Milstein, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers and PBS.

Photograph for video thumbnail by Tony Molina.

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The My Christmas concert is the ultimate holiday musical experience from Andrea Bocelli, showcasing the tenor in performances of traditional carols and other favorites in English, with a few additional selections in Italian and German. Regarding Christmas music, the star remarks, “I have long dreamed of recording a holiday album that captures the beautiful traditions of the holiday season. Every year, these songs have brought incredible joy to me and my family, and it is my hope to give back that same joy by making this album.” Of her experience singing Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas” with Bocelli during the taping, country music star Reba McEntire told the Toronto Sun, “I sat there in awe. I just loved it. (His voice) is rich like frosting on a cake – decadent. It’s so full. I stood there right beside him and just watched him.”

An iconic figure in music who has sold more than 60 million albums to date, Bocelli continues to defy categorization, age barriers and labels of any kind. In concert or on the opera stage, he has sung with everyone from Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo to Bono and Celine Dion. In addition to his solo Great Performances concert programs, Bocelli’s many memorable television appearances include the Oscar and Grammy Awards telecasts, mentoring contestants on American Idol and performances at the Official Ceremonies of the Olympic Games, all of which have propelled Andrea Bocelli into becoming a global household name in contemporary popular music.

Great Performances is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers and PBS.

Harlem in Montmartre airs as part of PBS’ Great Performances series on THIRTEEN Wednesday, August 26th at 8 p.m. EST (check local listings). The documentary is a co-production of THIRTEEN for WNET.ORG, Vanguard Documentaries, Inc., Ideale Audience SAS, ARTE France and Independent Television Service (ITVS).

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Inspired by the book Harlem in Montmartre: a Paris Jazz Story (University of California Press) by historian William A. Shack and utilizing rare archival material from both France and America, this remarkable performance- driven documentary features the stories and music of such key figures as James Reese Europe, Josephine Baker, Sidney Bechet, Bricktop, Eugene Bullard, Django Reinhardt and more. “The film explores a fascinating, yet often neglected, era in African-American cultural history” says producer Margaret Smilow. “It is a colorful, musical, poignant look at the contributions of a select group of black Americans, without whom the collective voice of jazz music around the world would sound entirely different.” Vanguard Documentaries Executive Producer Charles Hobson reveals, “The French were the first people in the world to respect jazz as serious art form, and it all began in Paris with the arrival of the Harlem Hellfighters, a military band.” Directed by Dante J. James, with performance sequences directed by Olivier Simmonet, and written by James and Simmonet with Allan Miller, the production was co-produced by Smilow with Hobson and Helene Le Coeur; S. Epatha Merkerson narrates.

GREAT PERFORMANCES is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Vivian Milstein, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers and PBS. Harlem in Montmartre has been made possible, in part, by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Because democracy demands wisdom. Major funding was also provided by the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Hugh M. Hefner, Rolf and Elizabeth Rosenthal, the Vital Projects Fund, the Grand Marnier Foundation, The Paula Vial Fund, the Price Family Foundation and Ann Phillips.

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“I was 15 or 16 and he was 18 or 19, and he definitely looked after me,” Winwood recounts of his blossoming friendship with Clapton, at the top of the telecast. “[We] played records and talked about music. From very early on, he took on a brotherly [role].” As their friendship solidified, Clapton and Winwood – with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Ric Grech – formed Blind Faith. They disbanded in 1969 after releasing only one chart-topping, self-titled album.

The spotlight, however, hasn’t dimmed on either Clapton or Winwood’s careers – Clapton has won 18 Grammy Awards and honored with 3 different inductions into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame; Winwood has won Grammy Awards for record of the year and best male vocal performance for his work on “Higher Love.” As for the decision to play a reunion concert, Clapton wanted to recreate “the romance and beauty of [the music] played in the past” The pair take viewers back to rock’s glory days as they perform songs by Jimi Hendrix (Little Wing), Clapton’s catalogue (Forever Man), and tracks from Winwood’s band Traffic (Pearly Queen) – rounding off the performance with hits from their Blind Faith album– which, for fans old and new, is an evening not to be forgotten.

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden also features Willie Weeks on bass, Chris Stainton on keyboard, and Ian Thomas on drums.

A production of Parallel 28 Equipe Inc., Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden is directed by Martyn Atkins and produced by John McDermott, James Pluta and Scooter Weintraub; John Beug, Michael Eaton, Peter Jackson and Tom Whalley are executive producers. The special was recorded live in performance at Madison Square Garden in February 2008. For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is series producer; David Horn is executive producer.

The telecast marks Clapton’s most recent appearance on Great Performances. In 2004, Great Performances broadcast highlights from Clapton’s three-day guitar festival from Dallas in Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, as well as a follow-up Crossroads Festival concert from Chicago in 2006. Clapton also appeared in the series’ presentation of Cream Reunion Concert (2005) and Concert for George (2003).

The DVD of Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden is distributed by Warner Strategic Marketing.

Great Performances is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers, and PBS.

Photo: Karl Simone

“Dear friends,” 15 Grammy Award-winner David Foster calls them, “some of my favorite people in the world.” To you and me, however, they’re better known as Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban and Michael Bublé. The gilded trio leads a parade of entertainers nurtured by the Canadian-born producer, honoring him in a gala concert this December on PBS (check local listings).

Recorded live in performance at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center, Hitman: David Foster & Friends features Foster himself presiding center stage at the keyboard. The evening is a virtual jukebox worth of songs written by and/or produced by him. Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and brother Kevon offer “I Swear;” Brian McKnight revisits Earth, Wind and Fire’s “After the Love Has Gone;” former Chicago front man Peter Cetera gets down with “Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” “You’re the Inspiration” and “Glory of Love;” while Boz Scaggs reprises “Look What You’ve Done to Me” from Urban Cowboy.

Neatly arcing Foster’s remarkable 35-year career, other highlights range from early hits like St. Elmo’s Fire Love Theme, recalled here by Kenny G; and “Man in Motion,” performed by American Idol hottie Michael Johns, through foot stompin’ disco with Cheryl Lynn’s “Got to Be Real,” to the neo-jazz swing of Michael Bublé’s “Feeling Good.”

Also look for American Idol’s Katharine McPhee soloing on “Somewhere” then joining Italian tenor Bocelli for “The Prayer”; Bocelli’s silky “Amapola”; Bublé and Country’s Blake Shelton duetting to Bublé’s “Home,” and new Foster discovery William Joseph at the keyboard for “Asturias.” And if Josh Groban brings the house down with signatures “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (in duet with Brian McKnight) and “You Raise Me Up,” Scene Stealer Award would have to go to 16-year-old power-house Charice, from the Philippines. Best known in America for her appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she stuns both audience and Foster with the Whitney Houston-by-way-of-Dolly Parton hit “I Will Always Love You.”

“A star is born tonight,” a genuinely startled Foster exclaims – a man who knows whereof he speaks. Over the past 35 years, he has amassed among his 15 Grammys three for producer of the year. He has also been nominated a whopping 44 times. He has produced hits with everyone from Natalie Cole to Celine Dion, from Barbra Streisand to the Corrs, Madonna to Chicago. He has also overseen such blockbuster soundtracks as The Bodyguard, Footloose and Ghostbusters.

More recently, he has created his own label, 143 (I Love You) Records, in partnership with Warner Brothers, where he’s developing the careers of Groban, Bublé and McPhee, to name just a few lustrous protégés.

Featuring pre-recorded segments with Dion and Foster offering “Because You Loved Me” and a special appreciation from Streisand (“David, thanks for spending part of your musical life with me”), Hitman: David Foster & Friends is a co-production of Chartmaker Records, Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York and Align Entertainment Group LLC. Also available on DVD from Warner Brothers Home Video, it is directed by David Horn and co-produced by Horn and Mitch Owgang. David Foster is Executive Producer.

“I’m grateful for my musical past,” says the still-youthful Foster, 58, who began playing the piano at age 5 and enrolled in the University of Washington’s summer music program at 13. “And I have great anticipation about the musical adventures waiting to reveal themselves in the future. I’m one happy, fortunate and lucky guy.”

GREAT PERFORMANCES is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers, and PBS.

Concord Records

Nearly 40 years after the release of his first single, beloved singer-songwriter James Taylor continues to captivate legions of fans with his characteristic, folk-inspired sound. The recipient of five Grammy® awards, and both a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Taylor has enjoyed an illustrious career and is widely acknowledged as both a premier musician and a premier storyteller. In July 2007, Taylor teamed up with veteran television producer Don Mischer and Oscar®-winning director Sydney Pollack (OUT OF AFRICA) to produce ONE MAN BAND, a concert performance of Taylor’s greatest hits, interspersed with personal anecdotes, often touching and sometimes witty reflections, and never-before-seen home movies and photographs from Taylor’s personal archives. Recorded at the magnificently restored Colonial Theatre in the heart of the Berkshires, the concert features classic James Taylor favorites such as “Carolina in My Mind,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Shower the People,” and “Fire and Rain.”

From Timothy White’s biography, JAMES TAYLOR LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY: HIS LIFE AND HIS MUSIC, Taylor reflects on his feelings about his music-making after the tremendous success of his albums SWEET BABY JAMES (1970) and MUD SLIDE SLIM AND THE BLUE HORIZON (1971).

“I’d been very sheltered by the fact my music had once been very rogue and maverick to make. It was an alienated thing to run off and make music! When suddenly that became, from my family’s point of view, so central and a point of pride, it achieved for me the very opposite of what I had gone into it for. I was threatened by the degree of success I’d gotten and was really confused about it. … Now it [music] was part of a band, a contract, a manager, a growing concern, and the alienated music soul you’d always been was now simultaneously the most responsible figure in this new realm!”

Watch Taylor perform “Something in the Way She Moves,” which was included on his 1968 self-titled debut album, and see which of his other popular tunes are featured in the concert in the song list. Vote for your favorite Taylor song in the poll.

Many local PBS stations may be offering the ONE MAN BAND CD/DVD set as a Pledge gift. To order this item, pledge now.

Visit the Web companion of the concert special honoring the singer’s musical legacy, A TRIBUTE TO JAMES TAYLOR.

Related Web Sites

• James Taylor
• The Colonial Theatre
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Inductees: James Taylor

Andrea Bocelli’s latest CD, THE BEST OF ANDREA BOCELLI: VIVERE, marks the first time in his career that the singer has released a greatest hits compilation. The recording, which debuted in October 2007, includes “Time to Say Goodbye” (”Con te partirò”), his breakthrough hit with Sarah Brightman from the four-time platinum-selling CD ROMANZA; “The Prayer,” a duet with Celine Dion from his two-time platinum-selling CD SOGNO; “Melodramma” from CIELI DI TOSCANA; the Olympics theme, “Because We Believe,” from his most recent platinum recording, AMORE; plus new tracks “Bellissime Stelle” and “Io Ci Sarò,” with special guest, pianist Lang Lang. Selections from this best of CD are among the highlights of the tenor’s concert from his Tuscan hometown.

Many local PBS stations may be offering the concert DVD and THE BEST OF ANDREA BOCELLI: VIVERE CD as Pledge gifts. To order these items, pledge now.

Visit the Web companions of two previous programs that have featured Andrea Bocelli, ANDREA BOCELLI: AMORE UNDER THE DESERT SKY and ANDREA BOCELLI: TRIBUTE ON ICE.

Related Web Sites

• Andrea Bocelli
• Bocelli Online
• Chris Botti
• Sarah Brightman
• David Foster
• Kenny G
• Heather Headley
• Orchestra da Camera delle Marche
• Elisa Toffoli

Proceeds from the extraordinary guitarfest went to support the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation center founded by Eric Clapton in 1997. The festival also offered guitar clinics, exhibits by leading manufacturers, and displays of guitars from the private collections of Clapton and his friends, which were auctioned by Christie’s in June 2004 and garnered more than $7 million to aid the Crossroads Centre.

Visit the Web companions of two other shows that featured Eric Clapton, CREAM REUNION CONCERT (2005) and CONCERT FOR GEORGE (2003).

Special funding for ERIC CLAPTON’S CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL was provided by SBC.

Related Web Sites

• Eric Clapton
• Crossroads Centre
• Radio Smithsonian: Guitar: Electrified, Amplified and Deified
• The Lemelson Center: The Electric Guitar
• NPR.org: Present at the Creation: The Electric Guitar
• PBS.org: The Blues
• PBS.org: American Roots Music

Richard Young – Oops Publishing Ltd. 2002

Rock music’s most celebrated musicians gathered at London’s Royal Albert Hall on November 29, 2002 to pay tribute to one of their own, the legendary George Harrison, on the one-year anniversary of his death. On that magical night, Harrison’s closest friends gathered to perform a collection of his music for a live audience. Far more than a concert film, CONCERT FOR GEORGE is a soulful cinematic tribute to a musician whose vision transcended the ordinary and whose talents contributed to a revolution in the music industry. Under the musical direction of Harrison’s longtime friend Eric Clapton, the film captures an emotional gathering of musicians including Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Billy Preston, and Ringo Starr. Truly a rare moment in music history, this documentary showcases these legends of music not likely to perform together on the same stage again. CONCERT FOR GEORGE is masterfully directed by famed British director David Leland, whose credits include WISH YOU WERE HERE, HBO’s BAND OF BROTHERS television series, and The Traveling Wilburys video “Handle with Care.”

Singer, songwriter, humanitarian, film producer, avid gardener, George Harrison was a man of many talents and interests. Initially gaining worldwide fame in the 1960s as a member of the Beatles, he went on to an accomplished solo career that spanned three decades. Remembering George, the Multimedia Presentation, provides highlights from Harrison’s life and career and features many tributes to him sent in by fans. In the essay, writer John Uhl takes a look at the continued mania the Beatles generate more than 30 years after their breakup. The catalogue of songs from the concert and links to video excerpts of three numbers are included in the song list.

CONCERT FOR GEORGE premiered on March 3, 2004.

Related Web Sites

• GeorgeHarrison.com
• George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
• CNN.com: In-Depth Special: George Harrison
• Cloud Nine
• The Beatles
• Wikipedia: The Beatles
• One Candle: The Sam Brown Fan Club
• Sony Music: Electric Light Orchestra
• Jools Holland
• Paul McCartney.com
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Billy Preston.net
• Ravi Shankar
• Anoushka Shankar
• RingoStarr.com