Composer, songwriter ("A Navajo Lullaby"), organist and conductor,
educated at New York University (BS), Columbia University (MA), and
Harvard University (PhD.), and also an organ student with Samuel
Baldwin and A.N. Richardson. He was awarded grants through the Schepp
Foundation, and the Harvard, John Paine, Charles Ditson and the
Juilliard Foundations. The Dominican Republic honored him with the
Order of San Pablo for his survey of native music. He worked for a
recording company from 1919 to 1929, and was an executive with the
Mutual Broadcasting System from 1934 to 1946. He was a guest professor
of musicology at the University of Texas in 1947-1948, and a professor
of music and the conductor of the symphony orchestra at the University
of Oklahoma in 1948-1949. He then became the senior Music Cataloguer
and Reviser in the Descriptive Cataloguing Division of the Library of
Congress, and has compiled a thematic index of the complete works of
Handel. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his other popular-song compositions
include "I Always Knew" and "Tropical Serenade".
