Franklin E. Morris

Who is Franklin E. Morris?

Franklin E. Morris is an American composer, b. 1920 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He received a professional education as a chemist, receiving a BS in chemistry from Ursinus College in Pennsylvania in 1941 and a Ph.D in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946.

Simultaneously he attended Cape Cod Institute of Music during the summers of 1939-41 as a piano major, and studied composition at Harvard University with Walter Piston in 1946. He then received a second set of degrees in music at the Yale School of Music: B.Mus. in composition in 1947-48 and an M.Mus. in composition, 1950–1951

From 1951 through 1985, Morris was Professor of theory and composition at the School of Music at Syracuse University. During those years He organized annual recitals of solo and chamber works during each of these years. He composed and produced an opera, "The Postponment" in 1959 and performed his Symphony in 1961 and Symphony 2 with the Syracuse Symphony in 1967.