Here’s a link and a “reprint” of an article on the Pacific Serenades web site, in preparation for the premiere of my new song cycle: Composer Profile: Justin Morell by Mark Carlson It’s as if playing jazz guitar were in his genes—Justin Morell is a fourth generation professional jazz Read more…
I’m very excited to announce the premiere of my new work, “Four Songs on excerpts from Lucretius’s On the Nature of the Universe“, on the Pacific Serenades concert series in Los Angeles. The piece is for baritone and string quartet, and will feature some incredible LA musicians: Michael Dean, bass-baritone Read more…
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…
I love the new GR-55. It’s got a solid sound engine, plenty of sounds to choose from, decent internal effects, and of course the COSM modeling of several typical guitars. I picked up my GR-55 about a week ago, and have been trying to get a handle on its strengths Read more…
Considering that the Second Viennese School of Composers was arguably the most influential individual school of compositional thought in the 20th century, and that the movement consisted of only three composers, one might reasonably expect that the entire small oeuvre of Webern works would have been by now well-worked and Read more…
The Largo of Act II, Scene 3, is the central scene of the central act of Berg’s Wozzeck. It is during this scene that Wozzeck confronts Marie about her affair with the Drum Major, the image of the knife is crystallized, and the fate of the two main characters is Read more…
Here’s a MIDI realization of Jazz Ensemble No. 10, complete with guitar-synth solos.
The large ensemble version of Dave’s Riddle, in HD! That’s High-DAVEinition!
I’ve just found some video of my saxophone quartet on youtube, as played by the Ross Quartet. Check it out here: