Curtis Stewart - Fantasy and Interludes on Going Home

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short fantasy on the spiritual Going Home inspired by Alice Coltrane’s album “Lord of Lords” | 2222-2221-3 perc - pno - hrp - strings - samba percussion ensemble | for American Composers Orchestra | 2025 | 8’

Note from the composer:

Inspired by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s interpretation of Going Home on her album "Lord of Lords" - Fantasy and Interludes on Going Home was co-composed by Curtis Stewart and Harlem Samba. Going Home is considered by many to be one of America's Negro Spirituals (despite being sourced from the beautiful slow movement of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony and set to text by William Arms Fisher in the late 1800's). It was championed by Paul Robeson, with many others, and recorded by Alice Coltrane on her album Lord of Lords, which also has a reworking of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. The spiritual is reworked for strings, keyboards, harp, and percussion, with the highly ornamented keyboard and strings creating an almost raga-like atmosphere around the original harmonies and melody. These orchestral interludes are a fantasy on all of the above—a musical thought reflected on a thought between a thought from a thought. Paired with the traditional drumming of Harlem Samba, this original orchestral work questions the nature of where "home" is, and to where it refers, depending on who is framing the iteration of cultural memory.