''Fresh Aire 7'' was the seventh album in

new age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...

musical group

Mannheim Steamroller Mannheim Steamroller is an American neoclassical new-age music ensemble founded and directed by percussionist/composer Chip Davis in 1974. The group is known primarily for its ''Fresh Aire'' series of albums, which blend classical music with ele ...

's ''Fresh Aire'' series. The album was originally released in 1990 and peaked at #77 on the Billboard album chart in December of that year. Its theme is based on the number

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. The album won a

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for best New Age album in 1991.

Track listing

Personnel

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Chip Davis Louis F. "Chip" Davis Jr. (born September 5, 1947 in Hamler, Ohio) is the founder and leader of the music group Mannheim Steamroller. Davis composed the music for several C. W. McCall albums, including the hit 1975 song "Convoy (song), Convoy". H ...

- Electric Piano (20th Century Digital Upright), Conductor, Producer, Liner notes *

Jackson Berkey Jackson Berkey (born May 24, 1942) is an American composer, pianist and singer, best known for his work with Mannheim Steamroller, which he co-founded with Chip Davis in 1974. Early life and education Berkey was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. ...

Harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...

* John Boyd - Sound engineer, Mixed by, Mastered by *

The Cambridge Singers The Cambridge Singers is an English mixed voice chamber choir formed in 1981 by their director John Rutter with the primary purpose of making recordings under their own label Collegium Records. The group initially comprised former singers from ...

- Choir *Louis Davis, Sr. - Orchestral Assistance *Louis Davis, Jr. - Technician (Keyboard) *Stephen Hartman -

Harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

*Bobby Jenkins -

Oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A ...

English Horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto ...

Arnie Roth Arnold Roth (born April 28, 1953) is an American conductor, composer, and record producer. His work includes conducting concerts for video game music. He is also a classically trained violinist and a member of the Grammy Award-winning music gr ...

- Concertmaster, Contractor,

Violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

John Rutter John Milford Rutter (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. Biography Born on 24 September 1945 in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, Rutte ...

- Chorus Master *

Bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

– Brad Opland, Collins Trier, Gregory Sarcher *

Cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

– Gary Stucka, Kim Scholes, John Sharp, Leonard Chausow, Victoria Mayne, Walter Preucil *

French Horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

– Alice Render-Clevenger, Dale Clevenger, James Smelser, Mary Gingrich *Viola – Martin Abrams, Catherine Brubaker, Li-Kuo Chang, Roger Moulton, Daniel Strba, Robert Swan *Violin – Fox Fehling, Adrian Gola, Joseph Golan, Lawrence Golan, Blair Milton, Everett Mirsky, Florentina Ramniceanu, Gail Salvatori, Laura Miller, Liba Schacht, Marlou Johnston, Otakar Sroubek, Peter Labella, Samuel Magad, Thomas Yang *Alto Vocals – Frances Jellard, Mary Hitch, Nicolas Barber, Peter Gritton, Phyllida Hancock, Susanna Spicer *Bass Vocals – Andrew Hammond, Charles Gibbs, Charles Pott, Don Greig, James Ottaway, Mike Chambers, Patrick Lee-Browne *Soprano Vocals – Alison Smart, Caroline Ashton, Clare Wallace, Donna Deam, Jo Maggs, Jocelyn Miles, Karen Kerslake, Penny Stow, Rachel Platt, Simone Mace *Tenor Vocals – Andrew Gant, Angus Smith, Harvey Brough, Jeremy Taylor, Mark le Brocq, Paul Gordon

References

1991 albums Grammy Award for Best New Age Album 7 American Gramaphone albums {{newage-album-stub