Program notes

Program Notes for “Four Songs”

The four texts in this cycle are excerpts from a very long six-volume poem by Lucretius (ca. 99- 55 BCE) in which he describes the details of Epicurean philosophy. In simple terms, this is a philosophy of the physical world, one in which all things are made up of tiny Read more…

By justinmorell, 13 years ago

Program notes

Program notes for the upcoming premiere at the Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble

Fugue as we think of it today dates back to the baroque period (c. 1600-1750) when it became not simply an imitative contrapuntal technique but a type of musical composition with a somewhat rigorous structural process. The term “process” is often favored over the term “form” to describe fugue because Read more…

By justinmorell, 13 years ago