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Lawrence Gilman (July 5, 1878 in Flushing, New York – September 8, 1939 in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire) was an American 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,^[1] then from 1901 to 1913 as a music critic for Harper's Weekly,^[1] 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.^[2] He was similarly dismissive of Gershwin's later Porgy and Bess.

Works

Gilman wrote several books:

"Phases of Modern Music" (1904)
"The Music of Tomorrow" (1906)
"Stories of Symphonic Music" (1907)
"A Guide to Strauss' 'Salome'" (1907)
"A Guide to Debussy's 'Pelleas et Melisande" (1907)
"Edward MacDowell: A Study" (1909)
"Aspects of Modern Opera" (1908)
"Nature in Music" (1914)
"A Christmas Meditation" (1916)
"Music and the Cultivated Man" (1929)
"Wagner's Operas" (1937)
"Toscanini and Great Music" (1938)
"Orchestral Music" (1951)

He also wrote musical works:

"A Dream of Death" (1903)
"The Heart of a Woman" (1903)
"The Curlew" (1904).

References

^ ^a ^b "Lawrence Gilman Dies. Music Critic of New Herald Tribune Was 61". No. 217 Vol. 168. Montreal Gazette. 11 September 1939.
^ Slonimsky, Nicolas (2000). Lexicon of Musical Invective. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32009-X. Gilman's unfavorable review, "weep over the lifelessness".

External links

Works by Lawrence Gilman at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Lawrence Gilman at the Internet Archive
Works by Lawrence Gilman at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Lawrence Gilman Papers, Georgetown University Library, library.georgetown.edu

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Harold C. Schonberg (1960–1980)
Donal Henahan (1980–1991)
Edward Rothstein (1991–1995)
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The Observer

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- Tim Smith
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New York Post
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San Francisco Examiner
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Saturday Review
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The Scotsman
- Mary Miller (1992–1998)
Sunday Express
- Ralph Hill (1940s)
The Sunday Telegraph
- John Warrack (1961–1972)
- Michael Kennedy (1989–2005)
The Sydney Morning Herald
- Roger Covell (1960 – late 1990s)

Position abolished

Birmingham Post	Stephen Stratton (1877–1906) Ernest Newman (1906–1919) Eric Blom (1931–1946)

Daily Express	Francis Toye (1922–1925) Arthur Jacobs (1947–1952) Noël Goodwin (1965–1978)

Daily Mail	Richard Capell (1911–1933) Edwin Evans (1933–1945) Ralph Hill (1945–1948)

New Statesman	W. J. Turner (1915–1940) Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1945–1958) David Drew (1959–1967)

San Francisco Chronicle	Alfred Frankenstein (1934–1964) Robert Commanday (1964–1993) Joshua Kosman (1993–2024)

The Sunday Times	Joseph Bennett (1865–1870) Hermann Klein (1881–1901) Ernest Newman (1920–1959) Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1958–1983) David Cairns (1983–1992)

Discontinued

The Morning Chronicle	William Ayrton (1816–1826) George Hogarth (1834–1844) Charles Lewis Gruneisen (1845–1853)

The Morning Post	Howard Glover (1849–1865) Henry Sutherland Edwards Arthur Hervey (1892–1908) Francis Toye (1925–1937)

Neue Freie Presse	Eduard Hanslick (1864–1904) Julius Korngold (1904–1934)

New York Herald Tribune	Henry E Krehbiel (c. 1880–1923) Lawrence Gilman (1923-late 1930s) Virgil Thomson (1940–1954) Paul Lang (1954–1963) Alan Rich (1963–1968)

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