Burrill Phillips

Burrill Phillips ( born November 9, 1907 in Omaha / Nebraska, † June 22, 1988 in Berkeley / California ) was an American composer.

Phillips studied at the Eastman School of Music with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers and taught here even from 1933 until 1949. Known he was composing Selections from McGuffey 's Reader after a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Later he taught, among others at the University of Illinois ( 1949-64 ), the Juilliard School of Music ( 1968-69 ) and Cornell University ( 1972-73 ). In addition to other orchestral works composed Phillips among others an opera, choral works, chamber music and pieces for organ and piano.

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