He was natural inside New Haven, Connecticut on February 71897. He attend Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker. He late exposed by having Ernest Bloch and Vincent d'Indy. He taught at Vassar during the Thirties, became dean (1938-42) & so director (1942-46) of the Just released England Conservatory of Music, and within 1946 returned to Yale, when prof, to teach until 1965. He died within Bethany, Connecticut on November 121966.

He wrote the material total in the "absolute (established) forms", including nine string quartets (1923–1953), several concertos (including a single for harpsichord, one for viola, and of these for ii pianos, a latter function getting a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Music), and 2 symphonies. His late music patch tonal is harmonically and rhythmically acerbic and dissonant.

Selected works
Symphonies Symphony there is no. One, 1934 Symphony there is no. Two, 1962 Other orchestral Ukrainian suite, 1925 New England Episodes, 1958 Concertos Concerto concertante, for ii pianos & orchestra begun 1953? ([http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/music/qp-s10.htm]) Harpsichord concerto, 1959? 1960? Viola concerto, 1948 Chamber music Nine string quartets Oboe quintet (Elegiac) Clarinet quintet Two fiddle sonatas (1926, 1929; 2nd recorded in the Fifties & thomas more recently, First given its premiere recording in the late 1990s) (besides an early sonata from either 1919 has been recorded) Suite for viola alone

Books
Porter, Quincy. Survey of sixteenth century contrast, according to a works of Orlando di Lasso. Boston: Loomis. Tertiary ed. public house. about 1948.