Oliver Daniel

Musical Artist

1911 – 1990

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Who was Oliver Daniel?

Oliver Daniel was an American arts administrator, musicologist, and composer.

He worked as a music executive for CBS, then took a job at BMI, creating that organization's Concert Music Department in 1954. Also in 1954 he helped found the CRI record label, along with composers Otto Luening and Douglas Moore. In 2000, CRI released a tribute CD for Daniel, entitled Looking to the East.

For many years, Daniel worked with and promoted composers such as Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, Colin McPhee, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. He also wrote an exhaustive biography of the conductor Leopold Stokowski entitled Leopold Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View.

For much of his life Daniel lived in Scarsdale, New York, with his partner Donald Ott.

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Born
Nov 24, 1911
Died
1990

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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