I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
Robert Morris Quotes
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
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| Birth: | 19th October, 1943 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Composer, Professor, Theorist |
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As a music theorist, Morris work has bridged an important gap between the rigorously academic and the highly experimental. Born in Cheltenham, England in 1943, Morris received his musical education at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, where he studied composition.
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