Frederick Lesemann is a composer living in La Crescenta, California, the small town near Los Angeles where he grew up. He is Emeritus Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he at various times served as Chair of the Composition Department and directed the electronic music studio. His degrees are from USC (DMA) where he was a student of Ingolf Dahl and the Oberlin Conservatory where he studied with Richard Hoffmann. Overall the layout of this album is a ritornello, in that the odd-numbered tracks are versions of a single theme. The four even-numbered tracks treat their own individual themes with versions of a basic procedure: highly ornamented transpositions.