Amazon.com description: Product Description: In Sounding Our Depths: The Music of Morgan Powell, author Ann Starr brings Morgan Powells unique power and pleasures home to general and professional readers alike. In non-specialist prose, Starr has written an intuitive collection of essays that highlight the fundamental role of improvisation in Powells writing; that analyze and interpret his works for solo instruments; and explore his youthful development from trombonist to composer. She uses his notebooks to plumb his compositional process, based as it is in a focus on content over structure. Starr introduces Powell as the radically unique composer whose work is founded in the humanistic themes of all great art.