Oliver Daniel (November 24, 1911 – December 30, 1990) was an American arts administrator, musicologist, and composer. He worked as a music executive for

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, then took a job at BMI, creating that organization's Concert Music Department in 1954. Also in 1954 he helped found the

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(Composers Recordings, Inc.) record label, along with composers

Otto Luening Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music. Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to German parents, Eugene, a conduct ...

and

Douglas Moore Douglas Stuart Moore (August 10, 1893 – July 25, 1969) was an American composer, songwriter, organist, pianist, Conducting, conductor, educator, actor, and author. A composer who mainly wrote works with an American subject, his music is genera ...

. In 2000, CRI released a tribute CD for Daniel, titled ''Looking to the East''. For many years, Daniel worked with and promoted composers such as Henry Cowell,

Lou Harrison Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a dissonant, ultramodernist style similar to his for ...

Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American- Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) a ...

Colin McPhee Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of Bali, and developing American gamelan along w ...

, and

Peggy Glanville-Hicks Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (29 December 191225 June 1990) was an Australian composer and music critic. Biography Peggy Glanville Hicks, born in Melbourne, first studied composition with Fritz Hart at the Albert Street Conservatorium in M ...

. He also wrote an exhaustive (and somewhat

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) biography of the conductor

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titled ''Leopold Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View'' (1982). For much of his life Daniel lived in

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, with his partner Donald Ott.http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mux/Partch_finding_aid_2005.pdf

References

External links

Oliver Daniel Correspondence with Ernst Krenek
MSS 43
Special Collections & Archives
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