New England background; early music lessons and first composition, 1909; Harvard MUSICAL REVIEW, 1913; Yale Music School, 1915-1917: Horatio Parker; Smith College, 1919-1921; teaching music theory, Roy Welch; Cleveland Conservatory, Ernest Bloch; fellowships and work abroad, 1925-1933: Florence, Rome, Berlin; comments on his own compositions, as well as on techniques of composition, tonality, harmo ny, teaching young composers, and on many artists, especially Igor Stravinsky, Otto Klemperer