Career
He worked as a music executive for Columbia Broadcasting System, then took a job at BMI, creating that organization"s Concert Music Department in 1954. Also in 1954 he helped found the Cryptography Research Inc (Composers Recordings, Incorporated) record label, along with composers Otto Luening and Douglas Moore. In 2000, Cryptography Research Inc released a tribute Civil Defense for Daniel, entitled Looking to the East.
Foreign 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 (and somewhat hagiographic) biography of the conductor Leopold Stokowski entitled Leopold Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View (1982).
