This past Saturday, Christina Courtin, whose Nonesuch debut is slated for next year, joined the Knights, the chamber orchestra in which she plays violin, in a concert at NYC's Washington Irving High School. The evening's program paired Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony with Courtin's own works. "Ms. Courtin's music and her unaffected vocal style call to mind the soulful, atmospheric sound of the late 1960s," says the New York Times review: "early Joni Mitchell at times, with an occasional touch of Laura Nyro and the vaguest hint of Janis Joplin."
This past Saturday, Christina Courtin, whose Nonesuch debut is slated for next year, joined the Knights, the chamber orchestra in which she plays violin, in a concert at New York's Washington Irving High School. The evening's program paired Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony with Courtin's own works.
"Ms. Courtin's music and her unaffected vocal style call to mind the soulful, atmospheric sound of the late 1960s," writes the New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn of her songs in hisconcert review: "early Joni Mitchell at times, with an occasional touch of Laura Nyro and the vaguest hint of Janis Joplin. Her most striking songs are not simply strophic: her melodies tend to expand and develop (and send her voice higher in its range) rather than merely repeat. And she arranged her set with a sensible dramatic arc, moving from the quiet introspection of 'Bundah' and 'Rainy' to the more melodically wide-ranging, extroverted 'February' and 'Photograph.'"
To read the complete review, visit nytimes.com.
