Oliver Daniel was an American

United States

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 arts administrator, musicologist, and composer.

He worked as a music executive for CBS

CBS

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, then took a job at BMI

Broadcast Music Incorporated

Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...

, creating that organization's Concert Music Department in 1954. Also in 1954 he helped found the CRI

Composers Recordings, Inc.

Composers Recordings, Inc. was an American record label dedicated to the recording of contemporary classical music by American composers. It was founded in 1954 by Otto Luening, Douglas Moore, and Oliver Daniel, and based in New York City....

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

Otto Luening

Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music....

 and Douglas Moore

Douglas Stuart Moore

Douglas Stuart Moore was an American composer, educator, and author. He wrote music for the theater, film, ballet and orchestra, but his greatest fame was for his operas The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Ballad of Baby Doe .-Biography:Moore was born in Cutchogue, Long Island, New York, and his...

. 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

Henry Cowell

Henry Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...

, Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison

Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...

, Alan Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...

, Colin McPhee

Colin McPhee

Colin McPhee was a Canadian composer and musicologist. He is primarily known for being the first Western composer to make an ethnomusicological study of Bali, and for the quality of that work...

, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Peggy Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer.- Biography :Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born Melbourne in 1912. At age 15 she began studying composition with Fritz Hart in Melbourne...

. He also wrote an exhaustive (and somewhat hagiographic

Hagiography

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) biography of the conductor Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British-born, naturalised American orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.In America, Stokowski...

 entitled Leopold Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View (1982).

For much of his life Daniel lived in Scarsdale, New York

Scarsdale, New York

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