Christopher Morris
Birth Year: | 1922 |
Death Year: | 2015 |
Notes: | Church organist who worked with Sir William Walton and commissioned the Carols for Choirs books . He was also music editor at Oxford University Press. arranged several pieces for the organ, and also created a cantata from Vaughan Williams’s opera A Pilgrim’s Progress. Morris’s own composition Born in a Manger was performed at the King’s College Cambridge Carol Service in 1962, and subsequently recorded by the Bach Choir. He also composed a number of songs. |
Edited:
Title | Composer(s) | Type | Arranged For | Publisher | |
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A Sixteenth Century Anthem Book | Various, | Score | SATB, a capella | Oxford University Press | |
The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems | Byrd, William; Weelkes, Thomas; Gibbons, Orlando; Tye, Christopher | Score | Mixed choir and keyboard | Oxford University Press |