Deems Taylor

Deems Taylor was an American composer, radio commentator, music critic and author. Nat Benchley, co-editor of The Lost Algonquin Roundtable, called him the dean of American music. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1934. He was widely known to the public as a radio commentator who explained music to general listeners, and he also wrote criticism for newspapers and magazines. His chapter on music appears in the 1922 collection Civilization in the United States.