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Viols. His work with adult chamber choirs continued and, in 1985, he founded the New
Bedford Singers which he conducted for 10 years in concerts in the home counties. At St Bartholomew-the-Great he directed several festivals, all of which were widely acclaimed in the national press both for the quality of the performances and the originality of the programmes. The Festival to celebrate the 850th Anniversary of the founding of St Bartholomew's Priory and Hospital in 1973 included performances by the London Bach Society under Paul Steinitz, the Schutz Choir of London under Roger Norrington, The Aeolian String Quartet and The King's Singers. The Festival to celebrate The Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, sponsored by The Stock Exchange, featured concerts by the New English Singers under Andrew Morris and the London Schubert Orchestra under Brian Brockless performing mostly twentieth century works.
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Berkeley), The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Elizabeth Maconchy) and Canticle of the Mother of God (John Tavener). In his festival organ recital, Andrew Morris gave the British premieres of Jubilate (Augustine Bloch), Hvar Litany (Miroslav Miletic) and Triphtogus I (Pal Karolyi) and the London premiere of Games (Paul Patterson), which had been commissioned by the 1977 St Albans International Organ Festival.
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Andrew Morris has been actively involved in the contemporary music scene throughout his career and was a member of the executive committee of the New
Macnaghten Concerts from 1978 to 1984 and chairman from 1981 to 1984. He was associated with the Park Lane Group from 1985 until its demise in 2022 and
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Rainbow books on historic texts to be revised and Morris contributed several chapters to this book. He is also co-author, with Ralph Allwood, of Trinity College London's "Sight Reading - A progressive method" for Singing examination candidates from Initial to Grade 8, published by
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As an organ recitalist, Andrew Morris gave regular recitals at St
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