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Morison
[ mawr-uh-suhn, mor- ]
noun
- Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, U.S. historian.
Example Sentences
Ryan Jackson has tapped the ball in to give Steve Morison's team an early advantage in League Two.
For secondary school, Hodges went to Winchester College, in Hampshire, where Benjamin Morison, a pianist and composer who is now a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, introduced Hodges to contemporary music by playing an LP of music by Birtwistle and Gyorgy Kurtag.
“I remember him being very precise — and encouraging me to be precise — and extremely musical,” Morison said of Hodges in a phone interview.
Hodges and Morison performed an arrangement of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” for two pianos and Pierre Boulez’s restless “Structures II” for their teachers and fellow students at Winchester, to bemused reactions.
“All these composers that we had idolized when we were teenagers, he has subsequently commissioned pieces from,” said Morison, who remains close with Hodges.
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