Curtis Stewart - Resonance

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Violin + Orchestra | (1 -1-1-1-1-pno -perc-strings) | commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Music NOW | 2023 | 24’

Note from the composer:

This first movement kicks off with textural homagés to Curtis' compositional inspirations - the brilliant orchestrations and rhythmic interplay of Ligeti’s Wind Quintet, the abstract theoretic combination of modes from the lydian and blues scales, and Wieniawski’s overt use of technicality to hyper-elevate a brooding romanticism. The short scherzo-like work pits subtle influences of contemporary jazz voicing, introspective counterpoint alla Shostakovich, with the frenetic and minimalist grooves of contemporary “Trap” music.

This work is an expression of the stylistic resonance of the above influences, along with the literal use of resonance: harmonics of the strings flowing from the crashes of cymbals, the ring of the piano and vibraphone bleeding into the sustain of the winds. Resonance is commissioned by Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s “Music Now,” the first of three movements in Curtis Stewart’s Violin Concerto No 1