Education
University of Illinois system. University of Chicago.
University of Illinois system. University of Chicago.
Smith taught music appreciation at the University of Illinois from 1926 to 1929, economics and foreign trade at De Paul University from 1928 to 1934, and music history at Oxford University from 1931 to 1939. He was the music editor of Esquire and was European correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. During the late 1940s he helped recover music manuscripts that were went missing during the war.