#4755, With Curtis Stewart

Curtis Stewart is a violinist, composer and arranger, and the current Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra. He is also the son of two professional jazz musicians, and when, at some point, he was offered the choice between composition and improvisation, he said “yes please” and took both. So on his own and with the improvising string quartet known as PubliQuartet, along with The Mighty Third Rail, Curtis Stewart plays a huge variety of music. Stewart and several musical friends (Aaron Diehl, Eleanor Oppenheim, students from the Kaufman Music Center, Special Music School, and PubliQuartet) give just a hint of his range, performing music from both his albums of Love and of Time, in-studio. (-John Schaefer)

Program #4755, With Curtis Stewart (First aired 5/30/23)

ARTIST: Curtis Stewart
WORK: Trad.: Thalassaki Mou [1:50]
RECORDING: Live, in-studio, March 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO:  The work appears on "Of Love", available at curtisjstewart.bandcamp.com/album/of-love

ARTIST: PUBLIQuartet
WORK: Hildegard von Bingen: O ignee Spiritus [2:04]
RECORDING: Freedom and Faith
SOURCE: Bright Shiny Things
INFO: brightshiny.ninja/publiq

ARTIST: Curtis Stewart, Aaron Diehl
WORK: David Baker: Deliver My Soul, arr. Stewart/Diehl [4:38]
RECORDING: Live, in-studio, March 2023
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: Curtis Stewart, Aaron Diehl
WORK: Oscar Peterson: Hymn to Freedom, arr. Stewart/Diehl [5:53]
RECORDING: Live, in-studio, March 2023
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: PUBLIQuartet
WORK: Pavement Pounding Rose [3:38]
RECORDING: Live, March 21, 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on What Is American? via Bright Shiny Things

ARTIST: PUBLIQuartet, with Eleanor Oppenheim, students from the Kaufman Music Center, Special Music School
WORK: Deep River [3:38]
RECORDING: Live, March 21, 2023
SOURCE/INFO:  This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: PUBLIQuartet
WORK: Shelley Washington: Middleground [9:21]
RECORDING: Freedom and Faith
SOURCE: Bright Shiny Things
INFO: brightshiny.ninja/publiq