“Curtis Stewart is something of a 21st-century Nicolò Paganini: virtuoso violinist and composer, and now creator of a collection inspired by his 19th-century Italian predecessor.”
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“Curtis Stewart transforms two dozen American songs into inventive, virtuosic studies for solo violin.”
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Surfacing featured in Night After Night | Playlist Hidden in our Hearts, by Steve Smith
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Surfacing featured in Spotify New Classical
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“Dust and the Moon is the debut album by a remarkable act called Rite of Strings.”
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"Dave Soldier’s Vipers at the Onyx is an orchestral portrait of a composer whose career has consistently ignored stylistic boundaries."
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What Belongs To You featured on Tafelmusik (NTS Radio) with Francesco Fusaro
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“What Belongs to You transforms Greenwell's painful intimacy into a musical drama where word, memory and timbre reveal the fragility of human bonds.”
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"Tender and confronting, it roughs you up while giving you a lesson in music-theatre. Not bad for an opera with a cast of one."
“Each and everyone of them is a seasoned and top notch instrumentalist.”
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“The result is a deeply collaborative recording that moves effortlessly between lyrical intimacy, cinematic atmosphere, rhythmic vitality, and spontaneous musical conversation — music that feels both ancient and contemporary, rooted in tradition while speaking with a distinctly modern voice.”
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Global Village, the NPR-affiliated world music program hosted by Chris Heim, highlights Dust and the Moon, the new album from Rite of Strings
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“24 American Caprices finds Curtis Stewart standing tall.”
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[Melemed] makes a striking debut CD with a program that pairs canonical piano works with contemporary responses to them.
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Lili Elbe featured on Opera Wire New Releases
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Biribá Union is Bringing Back Real Instruments and Cultural Diversity to the Music Industry
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Dust and the Moon featured on All About Jazz
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Dust and the Moon featured on JazzWeek
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There are moments when music transcends geography. It ceases to belong to a single tradition, a single culture, or even a single genre. Instead, it becomes a conversation, one spoken through shared experience, mutual respect, and the timeless language of melody. That is precisely where Dust and the Moon, the debut album from Rite of Strings, begins.
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The music is stylistically very diverse, ranging from fluid and melodic to comically offbeat, and its atmosphere perfectly matches the moods of the individual scenes.
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