Nora E Morrow
Nora E Morrow
Nora Essman Morrow, born in New York City has been a musician all her life. As a child she composed songs on the guitar and improvised stories at the piano. Morrow attended the Precollege Division of Manhattan School of Music and The High School of Music and Art in NYC. Introduced to modern dance accompanying through a music and movement class In her first year of college at The City University of New York, she began accompanying modern dance classes in the New York area. Continuing her musical studies and dance accompanying at The University of Utah – Salt Lake City, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Northern Illinois University, her studies encompassed classical, contemporary,electronic, jazz, as well as music education as each school had a different focus and specialty. Throughout these college years Morrow worked with modern and ballet dancers and upon returning to New York, worked at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College and many other dance schools in the area as an accompanist and composer. In 2010 she wrote and produced an album titled, Shawna The Bird, A Musical Adventure with music that had been commissioned by a children’s modern dance school. Some of Morrow's works can be found on a chamber works album titled, Fleeting Realms as well as on an album of string quartets titled, Quadrants Vol 3 in which Gramophone Magazine described her piece Rose Moon as, "three homespun dialogues filled with lovely lyrical things for the four players to do, especially the cello."Currently residing in New York, Morrow teaches piano, accompanies dance and composes. Her music is engaging, kinesthetic, visual and evocative.
MAMA LOVED FLOWERS
Year: 2021
Duration (in minutes): 7:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, piano, viola
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: A lyrical Viola/Piano duet with some passion some playfulness and some wistful moments in a dialogue between the two instruments.
Dances of the Forest
Year: 2021
Duration (in minutes): 8:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, English horn, horn
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Weaving through moods,interactions and activities within and around the forest
ROSE MOON
Year: 2019
Duration (in minutes): 6:23
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: string quartet
Publisher: Nora Morrow
INDIGO RIVER
Year: 2019
Duration (in minutes): 5:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Lyrical, harmonically rich solo piano piece with some jazzy touches.
DAWN
Year: 2015
Duration (in minutes): 8:15
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute
Publisher: Nora Morrow
EMERALD FIELDS
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 6:30
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Flute/Piano duet in three short sections originally written for modern dance to portray a bird, the sun and some pixie-like residents of an emerald field. Evocative, lyrical and visual.
Dream
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 5:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: percussion
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Like a dream,there are soft, dreamy parts,a quicker, punchier segment and sudden unexplainable changes with some jazzy harmonies and rhythm.
The entire piece is in 7/6 and was originally written for a modern dance choreographer.
QUADRANTS VOL 3 ALTIUS QUARTET
8 CONTEMPORARY STRING QUARTETS PERFORMED BY ALTIUS QUARTET featuring works by composers Bruce Babcock, Nora Morrow, Gary Smart, Jonathan Newmark, Alastair White, Janice Macaulay, Beth Mehocic, Phelps Dean Witter
Composers: Nora Morrow, & others
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Label's Website: www.noramorrowmusic.com/
Product ID: NV6239
Buy URL: https://navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6239/purchase---quadrants-vol-3---altius-quartet.html
Buy URL 2: https://www.amazon.com/Quadrants-3-ALTIUS-QUARTET/dp/B07SJY3CN6
MAMA LOVED FLOWERS
Year: 2021
Duration (in minutes): 7:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, piano, viola
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: A lyrical Viola/Piano duet with some passion some playfulness and some wistful moments in a dialogue between the two instruments.
Dances of the Forest
Year: 2021
Duration (in minutes): 8:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, English horn, horn
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Weaving through moods,interactions and activities within and around the forest
ROSE MOON
Year: 2019
Duration (in minutes): 6:23
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: string quartet
Publisher: Nora Morrow
INDIGO RIVER
Year: 2019
Duration (in minutes): 5:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Lyrical, harmonically rich solo piano piece with some jazzy touches.
DAWN
Year: 2015
Duration (in minutes): 8:15
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute
Publisher: Nora Morrow
EMERALD FIELDS
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 6:30
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Flute/Piano duet in three short sections originally written for modern dance to portray a bird, the sun and some pixie-like residents of an emerald field. Evocative, lyrical and visual.
Dream
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 5:00
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: percussion
Publisher: Nora Morrow
Description: Like a dream,there are soft, dreamy parts,a quicker, punchier segment and sudden unexplainable changes with some jazzy harmonies and rhythm.
The entire piece is in 7/6 and was originally written for a modern dance choreographer.
QUADRANTS VOL 3 ALTIUS QUARTET
8 CONTEMPORARY STRING QUARTETS PERFORMED BY ALTIUS QUARTET featuring works by composers Bruce Babcock, Nora Morrow, Gary Smart, Jonathan Newmark, Alastair White, Janice Macaulay, Beth Mehocic, Phelps Dean Witter
Composers: Nora Morrow, & others
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Label's Website: www.noramorrowmusic.com/
Product ID: NV6239
Buy URL 2: https://www.amazon.com/Quadrants-3-ALTIUS-QUARTET/dp/B07SJY3CN6
