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 for Violin
Composed by Curtis J. Stewart

DISC I

  1. i. inspired by David Bowie: Modern Love

  2. ii. inspired by Dolly Parton: 9 to 5

  3. iii. inspired by John Coltrane: Giant Steps

  4. iv. inspired by Bob Dylan: Blowing in the Wind

  5. v. inspired by Earth Wind and Fire: September

  6. vi. inspired by Stevie Wonder: Isn’t She Lovely

  7. vii. inspired by Queen Latifah: U.N.I.T.Y.

  8. viii. inspired by Taylor Swift: Shake it Off

  9. ix. inspired by Oscar Peterson: Hymn to Freedom

  10. x. inspired by Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi

  11. xi. inspired by Kendrick Lamar: Complexion

  12. xii. inspired by Tito Puente / Celia Cruz: Oye Cómo Va

DISC II

  1. xiii. inspired by Donny Hathaway, This Christmas

  2. xiv. inspired by James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing

  3. xv. inspired by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, This Train

  4. xvi. inspired by Elektra Kurtis / Greek Traditional, Thalassaki Mou

  5. xvii. inspired by Billy Strayhorn, Take the A Train

  6. xviii. inspired by Daniel Butterfeild, Taps

  7. xix. inspired by John Newton, Amazing Grace

  8. xx. inspired by Nina Simone, Young Gifted and Black

  9. xxi. inspired by Janet Jackson, Doesn't Really Matter

  10. xxii. inspired by Duke Ellington / Ella Fitzgerald, Mood Indigo

  11. xxiii. inspired by Wayne Shorter, Infant Eyes

  12. xxiv. inspired by Aretha Franklin, Rock Steady