“There’s no question that either the violinist or the orchestra are completely at home with Julia Perry’s larger style or the notes: this is about as confident and secure a first recording as they come.”
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“The main discovery here is Perry’s Violin Concerto, brilliantly played here by Curtis Stewart. Accompanied by James Blachly’s Experiential Orchestra. Perry’s bright, translucent scoring makes what might seem uncompromising on paper sound enthralling.”
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“Stewart buttons the album with one of his own compositions. We Who Seek is a five-minute ear-tease combining rap and electronics with samples from Perry’s psalm setting.”
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“…American Counterpoints is accordingly bittersweet, celebrating in Perry’s birth-centenary year the prowess of both composers in interweaving quasi-tonal lines and rich textures to create distinctive and highly inventive, abstract modernist music.”
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“On this splendid recording, violinist Curtis Stewart and Experiential Orchestra Music Director James Blachly make compelling cases on behalf of the composers and the enduring value of the work they produced.”
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“It is a fine example of the sober yet seething angularity of its era, leavened with warm strings and hints of Coplandesque expansiveness.”
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“it's a disc of musical discoveries, conveyed in compelling performances and warm, close sound.”
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American Counterpoints by The Experiential Orchestra, James Blanchly, and Curtis Stewart debuts at #3 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Charts
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James Blanchly and Curtis Stewart interviewed by Julie Amacher for YourClassical about American Counterpoints.
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“There aren’t too many albums, however good they might be, that make me stop everything all at once to listen to a second time. This is that album.”
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American Counterpoints featured on Tyler Klien’s Modern Notebook
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“American Counterpoints shines a much-deserved light on two important, and thankfully rediscovered, figures in American classical music.”
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American Counterpoints featured on Apple Music’s New In Classical and Tidal’s Classical New Albums.
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Coleridge Taylor’s Sinfonietta No. 1, from The Experiential Orchestra’s American Counterpoints featured on Tidal Encore: New in Classical.
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Coleridge Taylor’s Louisiana Blues, from The Experiential Orchestra’s American Counterpoints featured on Tidal Encore: New in Classical.
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Julia Perry’s Prelude for Strings, from The Experiential Orchestra’s American Counterpoints featured on NPR Classical.
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Coleridge-Taylor’s Louisiana Blues Strut, performed by Curtis Stewart and The Experiential Orchestra, featured on Spotify’s Classical New Releases.
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Curtis Stewart and James Blachly interviewed by Jennifer Hambrick for WOSU Classical 101 about American Counterpoints.
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Julia Perry’s Prelude for Strings from The Experiential Orchestra’s American Counterpoints featured on ASCAP’s New Music Friday.
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Julia Perry’s Prelude for Strings from The Experiential Orchestra’s American Counterpoints featured on Spotify’s Classical New Releases.
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