Lawrence Gilman
Lawrence Gilman (July 5, 1878 in Flushing, New York – September 8, 1939 in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire) was a U.S. author and music critic.Lawrence Gilman was the son of Arthur Coit Gilman and Bessie (Lawrence) Gilman, and the grandnephew of educator Daniel Coit Gilman. Lawrence Gilman studied art at Collins Street Classical School in Hartford, Connecticut under William M. Chase. He also taught himself music in theory and practice on several instruments, including organ and piano.
From 1896 to 1898, he worked for the New York Herald, then from 1901 to 1913 as a music critic for Harper's Weekly, where he advanced to the position of managing editor. From 1915 to 1923, he worked as a critic in multiple arts for the North American Review, and for the Herald Tribune from 1923 until his death.
On August 1, 1904, he married Elizabeth Wright Walter, with whom he had one child, "Betty" Elizabeth Lawrence Gilman in 1905.
Gilman earned later notoriety for his scathing negative reviews of compositions that later became known as classics. He described George Gershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'', for example, as trite, feeble, conventional, vapid, fussy, futile, lifeless, stale, derivative and inexpressive. He was similarly dismissive of Gershwin's later ''Porgy and Bess''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Stories of symphonic music; a guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures, and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day, by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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Phases of modern music; Strauss, MacDowell, Elgar, Loeffler, Mascagni, Grieg, Cornelius, Verdi, Wagner, "Parsifal" and its significance. by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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Edward MacDowell; a study. by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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Nature in music and other studies in the tone-poetry of today. by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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Orchestral music, by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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Aspects of modern opera; estimates and inquiries. by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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The music of to-morrow, and other studies. by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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Music and the cultivated man; an essay, by Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
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