24 American Caprices

Curtis J. Stewart

Release Date: June 19, 2026

The 24 American Caprices are inspired by a kaleidoscope of recorded American music, with some honorary American additions...musical aspects of each inspiration are abstracted and imbued with challenging violin techniques emulating the sounds and styles of their origin. In the full meaning of caprice, these violin fragments dance and sing lightly from inspiration to ornamentation, both with flights of fantasy and fastidious settings of referenced material, creating playful musical dialogue around American lineage and individual perspective in Classical music.

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24 American Caprices, by Curtis J. Stewart
i. inspired by David Bowie: Modern Love
ii. inspired by Dolly Parton: 9 to 5
iii. inspired by John Coltrane: Giant Steps
iv. inspired by Bob Dylan: Blowing in the Wind
v. inspired by Earth Wind and Fire: September
vi. inspired by Stevie Wonder: Isn’t She Lovely
vii. inspired by Queen Latifah: U.N.I.T.Y.
viii. inspired by Taylor Swift: Shake it Off
ix. inspired by Oscar Peterson: Hymn to Freedom
x. inspired by Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi
xi. inspired by Kendrick Lamar: Complexion
xii. inspired by Tito Puente / Celia Cruz: Oye Cómo Va
xiii. inspired by Donny Hathaway: This Christmas
xiv. inspired by James Weldon Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing
xv. inspired by Sister Rosetta Tharpe: This Train
xvi. inspired by Elektra Kurtis / Greek Traditional: Thalassaki Mou
xvii. inspired by Billy Strayhorn: Take the A Train
xviii. inspired by Daniel Butterfeild: Taps
xix. inspired by John Newton: Amazing Grace
xx. inspired by Nina Simone: Young Gifted and Black
xxi. inspired by Janet Jackson: Doesn't Really Matter
xxii. inspired by Duke Ellington / Ella Fitzgerald: Mood Indigo
xxiii. inspired by Wayne Shorter: Infant Eyes
xxiv. inspired by Aretha Franklin: Rock Steady