Burrill Phillips
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Burrill Phillips (November 9, 1907 – June 22, 1988) is an American composer and educator born in Omaha, Nebraska.
Phillips studied composition at the Denver College of Music and later attended Eastman to study with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. After receiving both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Eastman, he remained at the school as a faculty member until 1949. Phillips has also taught at the University of Illinois, Cornell University and the Julliard School of Music.[1]
Perhaps his best known work is Selections from McGuffey's Reader , settings of three 19th century American poems. The first movement, "The One Horse Shay", is based on a work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., while the second and third, "John and Priscilla Alden" and "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere", are based on works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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- ^ Basart, Ann P.: 'Burrill Phillips', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 28, March, 2007), <http://www.grovemusic.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu>
