As chief music critic of The Times since 1992, he "has long been admired for his penetrating cultural column".
[3] His first classical music experience was attending a 1960 London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) concert at the age of five.
"[1] In 2014 he was one of a number of British critics accused of sexism in their reviews of the mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught, who was singing the title role in a new production of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.
[11][12] Writing in the August 2020 edition of BBC Music Magazine, Morrison called for the dropping of three nationalistic songs, "Jerusalem", "Rule, Britannia!"
and "Land of Hope and Glory", from the Last Night of the Proms, the last two being in his opinion "bordering on incendiary" in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement.