Walter Simmons
Additional Information

ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award (1984) for music criticism
National Educational Film Festival Award (1983)

Organizations

American Music Center
Phi Beta Kappa
Music Critics Association
Sonneck Society for American Music

Citations

Ellis, Fay, "Critic Promotes the Music and Legacy of a 20th-Century Artist," New York Times, 9/l/96
International Who's Who in Music (12th edition)
Who's Who in American Music (2nd edition)

Reference Book Entries

American National Biography (1999) New York: Oxford Univ. Press:  entries on Vincent Persichetti, Peter Mennin

Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Barenreiter-Verlag (2000): entry on Paul Creston

New Grove II (2001); New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986): entries on P. Creston, N. Flagello, V. Giannini, L. Hoiby, P. Mennin, R. Muczynski, V. Persichetti, A. Rosner