SEASONS OF CHANGE | CULTURAL ATTACHE - REVIEW

New In Music This Week: June 20th

by: Craig Byrd | June 2025

We’ve all heard Vivaldi’s Four Seasons more times than we can possibly count. But you’ve never heard Four Seasons like this. Violinist Curtis Stewart has put together something completely different.

Vivaldi’s work has been re-arranged to serve as the foundation in which unhoused individuals in the Phoenix area are mixed in commenting about the impact of climate change on their lives. Who else experiences the extremes more than those without a house?

Stewart continues his examination of climate change by gradually eroding the influence of Vivaldi’s original work on his music. The views of the homeless also travel their own journey from darkness into guarded optimism.

Stewart plays violin throughout and is joined by Njioma Grievous, Lara St. John and Charles Yang on three cadenzas.

All of this sounds like a deeply intellectual exercise. It is one of the great joys and discoveries of Seasons of Change that it is far more than that. This is a deeply emotional album that is both satisfying and stimulating.