{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Winter Morning Walks | type = studio | artist = Maria Schneider | cover = Winter Morning Walks 1.png | alt = | released = 2013 | recorded = 2 and 3 May 2012; 26 and 27 September 2012 | venue = | studio = American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ted Mann Concert Hall at the University of Minnesota | genre = Jazz, big band | length = {{Duration|m=77|s=21}} | label = ArtistShare | producer = David Frost | prev_title = Sky Blue | prev_year = 2007 | next_title = The Thompson Fields | next_year = 2015 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''All About Jazz'' | rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=McClenaghan |first1=Dan |title=Dawn Upshaw/Maria Schneider: Winter Morning Walks |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/winter-morning-walks-maria-schneider-artist-share-review-by-dan-mcclenaghan.php |website=All About Jazz |accessdate=20 July 2018 |date=April 16, 2013}}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Australian'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="TA">{{cite web |last1=PLUSH |first1=VINCENT |title=Winter Morning Walks (Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider) |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/winter-morning-walks-dawn-upshaw-maria-schneider/news-story/f89219c0a5c3cc135bec9ea1cd84e70d?sv=bfc6aa5e8a8701d632d070a3dac381c0 |website=The Australian |accessdate=20 July 2018 |date=April 13, 2013}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Guardian'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="TG">{{cite web |last1=Clements |first1=Andrew |title=Schneider: Winter Morning Walks; Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/03/schneider-winter-morning-walks |website=The Guardian |accessdate=20 July 2018 |date=3 May 2013}}</ref> }}
'''''Winter Morning Walks''''' is a studio album by Maria Schneider and Dawn Upshaw.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider, Australian Chamber Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra – Winter Morning Walks |url=https://www.discogs.com/Dawn-Upshaw-Maria-Schneider-Australian-Chamber-OrchestraSaint-Paul-Chamber-Orchestra-Winter-Morning-/release/4398975 |website=Discogs |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SCHNEIDER Winter Morning Walks |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/schneider-winter-morning-walks |website=Gramophone |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Singing The Praises Of Pre-Dawn Walks |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2013/04/05/175463625/singing-the-praises-of-pre-dawn-walks |website=NPR |accessdate=20 July 2018 |date=April 1, 2013}}</ref> The album won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical in 2014.
==Reception== Vincent Plush of ''The Australian'' wrote "Schneider's music hails from the glorious American tradition of song-setting from Gershwin to Sondheim, framed in the open prairie sonorities of Copland and gentle jazz-inflected barbs of John Adams. It flows in an unbroken expressive stream, lyrical and ingratiating to the ear. Her melodies elevate Kooser's prosaic lines, suggesting an opera composer of uncommon promise".<ref name="TA" />
Fred Kaplan of ''Stereophile'' stated: "This is gorgeous music. There are shards and strands of Copland, Sondheim, Barber, and Ives, though the sound is distinctively Schneider, who is ever-evolving into a composer of—beyond genre—Great American Music".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kaplan |first1=Fred |title=Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks |url=https://www.stereophile.com/content/maria-schneider%E2%80%99s-iwinter-morning-walksi |website=Stereophile |accessdate=20 July 2018 |date=May 31, 2013}}</ref>
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