Quality Over Opinion

Laughing in Her Sleep

Recorded by the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra on November 9, 2022; conducted by Alan Kay. Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University. Soli Deo Gloria.

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Program Notes:

To plod is "to move or walk heavily or laboriously" or "to work or act perseveringly or monotonously." In any kind of art, it's tempting to wait until inspiration strikes before we get to work, but for most of us, this would mean that we accomplish little at all. Most days, we need to get up, keep our noses to the grindstone, and hope something happens that's worth keeping. This piece is a meditation on the commitment to plod along in whatever work we have in front of us. One step at a time, often a laborious step, is all we can do, but we must persevere in the pursuit of beauty.

Plod — for orchestra (2022)

Harrietlehre for Orchestra (Excerpt)

Some Unused Songs

End of The Night

Disappear Again

Other Pines, IV. The Pines As Refuge (Parco Del Pineto)

Original score for the documentary "American River" by Scott Morris.

Christopher Molina - shakuhachi
Conor Abbot Brown - clarinet
Max Wolpert, Sarah Hubbard - violins
Jack Bogard - mandolin and violin
Jake Saunders - cello
Ben Morris - piano and synths
Adam Hernandez - guitar
Dan Montgomery - bass
Evan Hyde - percussion
Daniel Whitworth - music copyist

Bridges

nothing

High Five

A Pill in the Sea

Time Machines (2025) Live Performance
Commissioned by the Bowling Green University Wind Symphony

Premiered on April 17, 2025 by the BGSU Wind Symphony
Dr. Kenneth Thompson, Conductor
© 2025 Harriet Steinke

Time Machines (Live April 2025 @ Bowling Green)

Bergen

Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Bridges

Ben Morris

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