Seattle Pro Musica performs Winter Sun by Don Macdonald, recorded live in studio at Classical KING FM 98.1. Special thanks to Sean MacLean and Jason Frazer of Classical KING FM for their work in recording and editing this track. Don Macdonald is an award-winning composer of film and concert music, and he has an eclectic musical background as a violinist, producer, educator, and conductor. Macdonald has been active as a choral singer since a very young age, and many of his works use voice in some way. He also writes music for theatre and dance, and has written in rock, jazz, and folk music idioms. The text of Winter Sun is from the poem of the same title by the award-winning Canadian poet, Malca Litovitz, and is rich with imagery of a Canadian winter. Litovitz was a full-time teacher of English literature and creative writing for 25 years, in addition to being an editor, critic, performer, mentor, and award-winning poet. An endowment for the Malca Litovitz Prize in creative writing has been established at Seneca College-Toronto. Winter Sun To light, to water, and the flow of birds through ancient stars. To the wild sun of winter startling the dark green trees giants of majestic silence. To snow on roofs and the peace of Sunday. To quiet and to certitude, to breathing, to air. To acceptance, to dreams. To disclosures of the sleeping heart, for air, for light.